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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (232156)	5/10/2005 2:33:29 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571219

"In concentration camps, people have little or no freedom and are tortured, raped and killed on a regular basis." That pretty well defines Israel's "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza. IDF death squads surround the entire permimeter of Gaza and the West Bank with tanks, military outposts, and a large militarized concentration camp fence. The internal areas are subdivided checkerboard style (similar to the bantustans of South African apartheid) into dozens of virtual concentration camps. Dozens of oppressive checkpoints are established between the different Palestinian bantustans totally restricting the freedom of movement of Palestinian civilians. Israel is the most racist state since the fall of Nazi Germany. bantustan in 20th-century South African history, territory that was set aside under apartheid for black South Africans and slated for eventual independence. Ten bantustans (later generally referred to as homelands), covering 14% of the country’s land, were created from the former “native reserves.” Four were proclaimed independent—Transkei (1976), Bophuthatswana (1977), Venda (1979), and Ciskei (1981)—but no foreign government recognized them as independent nations. Citizens of independent homelands lost the limited rights they had as South Africans. Under the South African constitution that was approved in 1993 and ended white rule, South African citizenship was restored to homeland residents, and the homelands were abolished. You are comparing apartheid in S. Africa with what is happening in the occupied territories. You are smart enough to know there is little comparison. You are slipping into the dark side again.