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South Africa strongly condemns Isaraeli actions in east jerusalem

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Forced Removal of Palestinian Families Reminiscent of Former Apartheid Regime
 
 (source: Hamsayeh.Net)

The South African government issued a harsh statement criticizing Israelis for their planned housing  constructions in East Jerusalem. The statement condemned Israeli for forcefully evicting Palestinians from their homes comparing such actions to the ‘forced removals’ of the apartheid era by the former racist government of South Africa.

 We condemn the fact that Israeli settlement expansion in East Jerusalem is coupled with Israel’s campaign to evict and displace the original Palestinian residents from the City," the statement said. "South Africa is deeply concerned that these activities by Israel will only serve only to deepen the cycle of violence in the region."

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Abolish Africas artificial boundries imposed by west

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By Firoz Osman – Media Review Network

(source: Star Newspaper, Mon 28/03/2011, Pg13)

In her trenchant piece on the conflict in the Ivory Coast “ Africa is back to bowing to West”, Christine Qunta bemoans the fact that “African leaders are back to being summoned to Washington, Paris and London to take instructions on how to act as protectors of Western interests on this continent.” (The Star, 23/03/2011).

French-backed Allassane Ouattara and incumbent Laurent Gbagbo both claim to have won the democratic elections, threatening to plunge the country into a civil war. Opportunists will exploit the toxic issue of tribalism, given that Ouattara is from the Dioula ethnic group and Gbagbo, a Bete, consider Ouattara from the north as “foreigners” or immigrants.

The previously colonised world in Africa and Asia will never be free from this vicious cycle of internecine conflict and war until it reverts to a form of governance that preceded colonialism. The democratic, nation-state is no panacea. Historians note that it was a meeting at the Berlin residence of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1884, that the foreign ministers of fourteen European powers and the United States of America established ground rules for the future exploitation of the “dark continent.”

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