Re: If you aspire to be an intellectual then you must know that first mark of one is meticulous precision with words.
Meticulous, pettifogging precision, eh? But then, what's a SEMITE in the first place??
TIP:
bartleby.com
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Anyway, 3,000 NGOs can't be wrong...
Israel branded 'racist' by rights forum
September 2, 2001 Posted: 1516 GMT
DURBAN, South Africa -- A human rights forum running parallel to the U.N. World Conference on Racism ended rancorously on Sunday with a declaration that branded Israel a "racist apartheid state" guilty of "war crimes, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing."
The declaration, adopted by a majority of the 3,000 delegates from 44 regions to the World Conference's Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) forum -- a broad-based summit of groups from around the world involved in human rights issues -- shocked Jewish participants, and many walked out of the meeting.
Some other international human rights groups who were part of the NGO forum, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, moved to distance themselves from the declaration.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres expressed his government's anger.
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