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		<title>By: hp</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/happy-birthday-israel-company-is-coming-carrying-un-flags/#comment-16932</link>
		<dc:creator>hp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>South Africa "an oasis of brotherhood and democracy?"
Yes that's why one of the richest lands on earth makes so many headlines. Because of all the great and wonderful things happening there. Things which make headline news world wide. 
The place is an abject failure by design. And when Mandela dies? Word on the street is payback time. Not that it isn't already the murder capital of the world. The crime capital of the world. It is. Doesn't make for good headline news, does it?    
The same old oligarchs own the mines and banks (the usual suspects) and the incredibly fertile and productive farm lands are increasingly being confiscated from the white devil farmers and turned over, by law, to blacks. Can you say Zimbabwe? The communist ANC is just that, the communist ANC. 
Of course it will take a while before the disastrous politics and backward slide carries it to the place where Zimbabwe dwells, but this will happen. By design. 
One good piece of news though.
Israel isn't helping the ANC build any nuclear weapons...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>South Africa &#8220;an oasis of brotherhood and democracy?&#8221;<br />
Yes that&#8217;s why one of the richest lands on earth makes so many headlines. Because of all the great and wonderful things happening there. Things which make headline news world wide.<br />
The place is an abject failure by design. And when Mandela dies? Word on the street is payback time. Not that it isn&#8217;t already the murder capital of the world. The crime capital of the world. It is. Doesn&#8217;t make for good headline news, does it?<br />
The same old oligarchs own the mines and banks (the usual suspects) and the incredibly fertile and productive farm lands are increasingly being confiscated from the white devil farmers and turned over, by law, to blacks. Can you say Zimbabwe? The communist ANC is just that, the communist ANC.<br />
Of course it will take a while before the disastrous politics and backward slide carries it to the place where Zimbabwe dwells, but this will happen. By design.<br />
One good piece of news though.<br />
Israel isn&#8217;t helping the ANC build any nuclear weapons&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: eileen fleming</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/happy-birthday-israel-company-is-coming-carrying-un-flags/#comment-16920</link>
		<dc:creator>eileen fleming</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good points sk.

"An apartheid society is much more than just a 'settler colony'. It involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges."-Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, By Anthony Löwstedt. Page 77.

Apartheid can be summed up as a structured process of gross human rights violations perpetrated against a conquered ethnic majority by a state and society mainly controlled by an invading ethnic minority and its descendants, mainly immigrants, that have been deemed part of the ethnic elite.

The following nine categories make up the necessary, sufficient,  and defining characteristics of apartheid regimes: [ which i have paraphrased from pages 71-73, Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present.

1. Violence: Apartheid is a state of war initiated by a de facto invading ethnic minority, which at least in the short term originates from a non-neighboring locality. In all main instances of apartheid most if not all members of the invading group originate from a different continent. The invading ethnic minority and its self-defined descendants then continue to dominate the indigenous majority by means of their military superiority and by their continuous threats and uses of violence. 

2. Repopulation: Apartheid is also a continuation of depopulation and population transfer. One example is seen in the obliteration of the indigenous Bedouins that Israel denies free movement to graze their herds and are silently transferring the Bedouins to new locales, such as atop of garbage dumps.

3. Citizenship: The indigenous people are often denied citizenship in their own country by the apartheid state authorities, which are ironically and irrationally, run and staffed by the recent arrivals to the country.

 4. Land: Apartheid entails land confiscation, land redistribution and forced removals, almost without exception to the benefit of the invading ethnic minority. Usually, members of the ethnic majority are forced on to barren and unfertile soils, where they must also try to survive under impoverished and overcrowded conditions.

5. Work: Apartheid displays systematic exploitation of the indigenous class in the production process and different pay or taxation for the same work.

6. Access: There is ethnically differentiated access to employment, food, water, health care, emergency services, clean air, and other needs, including the need for leisure activities, in each case ensuring superior access for the favored ethnic community.

7. Education: There are also different kinds of education offered and forced upon the different ethnic groups. 

8. Language: A basic apartheid characteristic is the fact that only very few of the invaders and their descendants ever learn the language(s) of the indigenous victims. 

9. Thought: Finally, apartheid contains ideologies or 'necessary illusions' in order to convince the privileged minorities that they are inherently superior and the indigenous majorities that they are inherently inferior. Much of apartheid thought is shaped by typical war propaganda. The enemy is dehumanized by both sides' ideologies, words and other symbols are used to incite or provoke people to violence, but mostly so by the invaders and their descendants.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good points sk.</p>
<p>&#8220;An apartheid society is much more than just a &#8217;settler colony&#8217;. It involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges.&#8221;-Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, By Anthony Löwstedt. Page 77.</p>
<p>Apartheid can be summed up as a structured process of gross human rights violations perpetrated against a conquered ethnic majority by a state and society mainly controlled by an invading ethnic minority and its descendants, mainly immigrants, that have been deemed part of the ethnic elite.</p>
<p>The following nine categories make up the necessary, sufficient,  and defining characteristics of apartheid regimes: [ which i have paraphrased from pages 71-73, Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present.</p>
<p>1. Violence: Apartheid is a state of war initiated by a de facto invading ethnic minority, which at least in the short term originates from a non-neighboring locality. In all main instances of apartheid most if not all members of the invading group originate from a different continent. The invading ethnic minority and its self-defined descendants then continue to dominate the indigenous majority by means of their military superiority and by their continuous threats and uses of violence. </p>
<p>2. Repopulation: Apartheid is also a continuation of depopulation and population transfer. One example is seen in the obliteration of the indigenous Bedouins that Israel denies free movement to graze their herds and are silently transferring the Bedouins to new locales, such as atop of garbage dumps.</p>
<p>3. Citizenship: The indigenous people are often denied citizenship in their own country by the apartheid state authorities, which are ironically and irrationally, run and staffed by the recent arrivals to the country.</p>
<p> 4. Land: Apartheid entails land confiscation, land redistribution and forced removals, almost without exception to the benefit of the invading ethnic minority. Usually, members of the ethnic majority are forced on to barren and unfertile soils, where they must also try to survive under impoverished and overcrowded conditions.</p>
<p>5. Work: Apartheid displays systematic exploitation of the indigenous class in the production process and different pay or taxation for the same work.</p>
<p>6. Access: There is ethnically differentiated access to employment, food, water, health care, emergency services, clean air, and other needs, including the need for leisure activities, in each case ensuring superior access for the favored ethnic community.</p>
<p>7. Education: There are also different kinds of education offered and forced upon the different ethnic groups. </p>
<p>8. Language: A basic apartheid characteristic is the fact that only very few of the invaders and their descendants ever learn the language(s) of the indigenous victims. </p>
<p>9. Thought: Finally, apartheid contains ideologies or &#8216;necessary illusions&#8217; in order to convince the privileged minorities that they are inherently superior and the indigenous majorities that they are inherently inferior. Much of apartheid thought is shaped by typical war propaganda. The enemy is dehumanized by both sides&#8217; ideologies, words and other symbols are used to incite or provoke people to violence, but mostly so by the invaders and their descendants.</p>
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		<title>By: sk</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/happy-birthday-israel-company-is-coming-carrying-un-flags/#comment-16912</link>
		<dc:creator>sk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It's South Africa which has turned out to be "an oasis of brotherhood and democracy", but that required elections, striking down the legal edifice on which "separateness" was constructed, a secular constitution, and above all frank acknowledgement of the past in all its &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/10/biko/index.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/truth_and_reconciliation/203134.stm" rel="nofollow"&gt;criminality&lt;/a&gt;. Only then could the path toward closure be cleared for either community. 

As things stand, South Africa moved on and despite its serious problems is looked upon as a source of hope and healing by most of the world, but Israel remains stuck in a time warp of ethnocratic supremacism. This mentality was laid out in black and white--no pun intended--in an official South African government communique issued during a visit to Israel in 1976 by the South African Prime Minister, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Vorster" rel="nofollow"&gt;John Vorster&lt;/a&gt;:
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Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s South Africa which has turned out to be &#8220;an oasis of brotherhood and democracy&#8221;, but that required elections, striking down the legal edifice on which &#8220;separateness&#8221; was constructed, a secular constitution, and above all frank acknowledgement of the past in all its <a href="http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/10/biko/index.html" rel="nofollow">horror</a> and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/truth_and_reconciliation/203134.stm" rel="nofollow">criminality</a>. Only then could the path toward closure be cleared for either community. </p>
<p>As things stand, South Africa moved on and despite its serious problems is looked upon as a source of hope and healing by most of the world, but Israel remains stuck in a time warp of ethnocratic supremacism. This mentality was laid out in black and white&#8211;no pun intended&#8211;in an official South African government communique issued during a visit to Israel in 1976 by the South African Prime Minister, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Vorster" rel="nofollow">John Vorster</a>:</p>
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Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples.
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		<title>By: eileen fleming</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/happy-birthday-israel-company-is-coming-carrying-un-flags/#comment-16901</link>
		<dc:creator>eileen fleming</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just weeks before Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, he envisioned Israel "as one of the greatest outposts of democracy in the world...an oasis of brotherhood and democracy."

One man's dream can change everything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just weeks before Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, he envisioned Israel &#8220;as one of the greatest outposts of democracy in the world&#8230;an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>One man&#8217;s dream can change everything.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/happy-birthday-israel-company-is-coming-carrying-un-flags/#comment-16876</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I'm an avid historian, but no theologian.

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.” Whoever benefits from a circumstance is usually the cause of it. The ‘shoa’, Hebrew for holocaust, also means “burnt offering” – a sacrifice to God. If the Zionist knew that historically mass emigration only happens through severe persecution (via man or Mother Nature), what sacrifice would they need to create Israel? What happened first: birth of Zionism, Holocaust or Israel? Bearing in mind that there can be multiple causes to the same effect, what is the cause and effect?

All people of middle-class origin who experience a rapid rise to great power had a puppet-master or benefactor.  There is simply no other ‘prime’ reason or explanation.
After all, Adolf Hitler (middle class origin) didn't really hate the Jews - he cared solely about the blinding lust for power - as they, Zionist searching for a ‘burnt offering’, helped finance his rise to power.  Somebody, with large sums of money, had to finance Hitler. Who has a ton of cash and a cause (see German-Zionist transfer agreements to Palestine) which benefited at the end of WW2?

Don’t take my words in a judgmental manner as "all suffering comes from resistance to what is..." -Buddha.  Regarding the heart of Zionism, a gentle at a World Zionist Organization meeting would feel like a black man at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally.  If there is an "after life", Arial Sharon, Theodor Herlz (Zionist National Socialism founder) and Adolf Hitler (German National Socialism) are all playing cards in the same place.  Search your feelings. What deep self-evident truth, at least in part, do you find in these aforementioned statements?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m an avid historian, but no theologian.</p>
<p>Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.” Whoever benefits from a circumstance is usually the cause of it. The ‘shoa’, Hebrew for holocaust, also means “burnt offering” – a sacrifice to God. If the Zionist knew that historically mass emigration only happens through severe persecution (via man or Mother Nature), what sacrifice would they need to create Israel? What happened first: birth of Zionism, Holocaust or Israel? Bearing in mind that there can be multiple causes to the same effect, what is the cause and effect?</p>
<p>All people of middle-class origin who experience a rapid rise to great power had a puppet-master or benefactor.  There is simply no other ‘prime’ reason or explanation.<br />
After all, Adolf Hitler (middle class origin) didn&#8217;t really hate the Jews - he cared solely about the blinding lust for power - as they, Zionist searching for a ‘burnt offering’, helped finance his rise to power.  Somebody, with large sums of money, had to finance Hitler. Who has a ton of cash and a cause (see German-Zionist transfer agreements to Palestine) which benefited at the end of WW2?</p>
<p>Don’t take my words in a judgmental manner as &#8220;all suffering comes from resistance to what is&#8230;&#8221; -Buddha.  Regarding the heart of Zionism, a gentle at a World Zionist Organization meeting would feel like a black man at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally.  If there is an &#8220;after life&#8221;, Arial Sharon, Theodor Herlz (Zionist National Socialism founder) and Adolf Hitler (German National Socialism) are all playing cards in the same place.  Search your feelings. What deep self-evident truth, at least in part, do you find in these aforementioned statements?</p>
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