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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (23481)	8/12/2005 7:54:15 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81894

Gus > But what's political power without economical power? Of course, things could have been a lot worse and, as a white, I have to be realistic and accept what happened in terms of other known possibilities eg Cambodia. Although I gripe a lot don't think I'm not ungrateful for what has happened. In fact, the sharemarket has had its biggest rise in many years recently and I don't find that one bit displeasing. My children and grandchildren all live in SA and we are all very happy to be here. But, as you know, many whites have a different view and many have left. Although whites still hold economic power in SA, the blacks, and especially the Asians, are advancing rapidly. In time, as an economic group, the whites are likely to be far less significant although, I agree, that is not the case now. But the way Israel is carrying on indicates, to me at any rate, that when the iceberg turns the Israelis want no mercy for themselves because they appear to do nothing to engender goodwill amongst the Palestinians. This is quite unlike SA where a strong undercurrent of goodwill between the races has always existed although it would not have appeared so, especially to a foreign observer who listened only to the rantings of the government. In many ways, SA is an enigma and a paradox which is not easily understood.