South Africa – Features
Israels crisis
By Philip Weiss
(source: mondoweiss.net)
Just back from Israel/Palestine, the overwhelming sense I carry away is that the present state cannot last. Just how it goes down I have no idea. But conditions are so obviously discriminatory, and the knowledge of these conditions now so widespread– among the Christian pilgrims in my Jerusalem guesthouse, among European leaders, and now too among the Israeli elite and American left–that the situation is reminiscent of the delegitimizing of communism in the 70s and 80s. The period of apartheid struggle that Ehud Olmert warned of two years ago is upon us. So too his warning of possible “national suicide."
The surprise for me is that the indifference of American Jews to this injustice is more than matched by that of the mass of Israelis: They live inside the bubble of their opinion that Israeli society is fair. So this trip has left me pretty depressed, even as it has renewed my sense of ethnocentric purpose: I will do what I can to bring the American Jewish community into the world conversation about the reality of Israel/Palestine.
Ben gurion and massacre of deir yassin
Ben-Gurion and Massacre of Deir Yassin
‘The massacre of Deir Yassin added to the mass exodus ..’
By Iqbal Jassat
The minutes of a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on 12 June 1938 records a chilling statement made by David Ben-Gurion:
“I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything immoral in it”.
Sa diplomats to visit uganda detainees
The reason for the detention of two South Africans in Uganda would only be known after the SA High Commissioner there has visited them, hopefully on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
Spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said that so far no charges had been put to the two relief workers, and further information and decisions on a course of action would only be known once this visit had taken place.
Mufti Hussain Bhayat and Haroon Saley were detained last week during a stopover at Entebbe International Airport in Kampala.
Uganda’s New Vision online newspaper said they were taken in for questioning by a joint anti-terrorism task force. However their family’s lawyer Yousha Tayob said he had not received any firm reason for their detention.
The Muslim Judicial Council is concerned that the two may be the subjects of Islamophobic profiling in the wake of an international anti-terror crackdown. – Sapa
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