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-----Original Message----- From: Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 April 2002 13:12 To: jonathan Subject: Fw: Israel should learn from SA's Apartheid past!!/Basson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ayo Obisanya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dr Antia Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dr Ayo Awe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dr Martin Biyo'o Mveng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kofi Amegashie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 15 April 2002 08:04 Subject: Israel should learn from SA's Apartheid past!!/Basson > > Subject: Israel repeating mistakes of apartheid rulers > > > 22:38 12/04/2002Last update - 00:36 13/04/2002 > > Mbeki: Israel repeating mistakes of apartheid rulers > > By Reuters > > CAPE TOWN - Israel is repeating the mistakes of South Africa's apartheid > rulers in its effort to crush a popular rebellion, South African President > Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. > > Mbeki said in a weekly online letter that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was > wrong to demand an end to Palestinian violence as a pre-condition for talks. > > South Africa has consistently criticized Israel's handling of the crisis, > but Mbeki said he was equally concerned about the rights and the losses of > both Israelis and Palestinians. > > "When we call for respect for life, we must state firmly that we refer both > to Israelis and Palestinians," he said. > > "However...we must proceed from the concrete reality that the Israelis have > their own independent state and homeland. The Palestinians do not." > > Israeli forces launched a military offensive in the West Bank two weeks ago > to try to crush Palestinian militants blamed for a series of suicide attacks > that killed dozens of Israelis. > > Mbeki said South Africa's own experience, in which tens of thousands of > people died in the uprising against white minority rule, had shown that an > oppressed people fought because they had "nothing to lose but their > servitude", not because they were told to fight. > > South Africa's white rulers, who negotiated themselves out of power between > 1990 and 1994, fought for 30 years to maintain their exclusive hold on > power. > > Police and government agents shot protesters, assassinated civic leaders, > jailed activists and banished high-profile opponents in a bid to break the > uprising that eventually forced them into talks. > > "The rulers of Israel are repeating the costly mistakes made by the captains > of apartheid in our country," Mbeki said. > > "Everything that has happened in the Palestinian territories in almost two > years says, in action, that the Palestinians and especially the youth are > ready to march against tanks and armoured cars because it is no longer > possible for them to live as a dispossessed people. > > "The attempt to search and destroy so-called agitators and terrorists in > their midst, in the belief that these are the instigators of the rebellion, > without whom the rebellion would cease, is to live in worse than a fool's > paradise," he said. > > Welcoming U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's peace mission, he said "The > leaders of both the people of Israel and Palestine have a common > responsibility to take advantage of the presence of the Secretary of State > to break the chain of violence." > > Powell, on a Middle East peace mission, is due to hold talks with > Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday at Arafat's offices > in Ramallah, besieged by Israeli forces. > > > > > > > ***************************************************** --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
