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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1156)	2/22/2002 9:01:56 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 6945

<<< This morning the BBC World Service asked Mr. Rolf Mayer, a former minister in the last Apartheid government of South Africa whether from his experience he thought that the onus was on the Israeli government or the Palestinians to act to end this conflict. Mayer said that it was not until the Apartheid government--the side with the power--gave up the dream of perpetuating white rule that South Africa could move forward, and that therefore it was up to Israel--the side with the power--to decide to end its occupation. Mayer said that negotiations take place in the context of conflict and therefore the demand that all violence be stopped as a precondition for negotiations was one which would have doomed the South African peace talks to failure. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Apartheid South Africa and Israel were close military and political allies. So it is saying something when even Israel's former Apartheid friends are telling it to see reality in a different way. And it is remarkable to think that when everyone in the world sees things clearly, only the United States government and media pretend they do not. >>> abunimah.org Tom

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