Thursday, August 31, 2006

Mystery of Mars rover's 'carwash' rolls on - space - 23 December 2004 - New Scientist

Mystery of Mars rover's 'carwash' rolls on - space - 23 December 2004 - New Scientist

New report sheds light on apartheid army secrets : Mail & Guardian Online

New report sheds light on apartheid army secrets : Mail & Guardian Online

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Blair to tackle 'menace' children

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Blair to tackle 'menace' children

ANCYL: Kebble-murder allegations malicious : Mail & Guardian Online

ANCYL: Kebble-murder allegations malicious : Mail & Guardian Online

Cluster bombing of Lebanon 'immoral' : Mail & Guardian Online

Cluster bombing of Lebanon 'immoral' : Mail & Guardian Online

Zimbabwe govt mulls new bugging Bill : Mail & Guardian Online

Zimbabwe govt mulls new bugging Bill : Mail & Guardian Online

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Can you really not see? - Haaretz - Israel News

Can you really not see? - Haaretz - Israel News: "Can you really not see?
By Amira Hass

Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because 'God chose us.' Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators. These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners.

But there are others. Historians and mathematicians, senior editors, media stars, psychologists and family doctors, lawyers who do not support Gush Emunim and Kadima, teachers and educators, lovers of hiking trails and sing-alongs, high-tech wizards. Where are you? And what about you, researchers of Nazism, the Holocaust and Soviet gulags? Could you all be in favor of systematic discriminating laws? Laws stating that the Arabs of the Galilee will not even be compensated for the damages of the war by the same sums their Jewish neighbors are entitled to (Aryeh Dayan, Haaretz , August 21).

Could it be that you are all in favor of a racist Citizenship Law that forbids an Israeli Arab from living with his family in his own home? That you side with further expropriation of lands and the demolishing of additional orchards, for another settler neighborhood and another exclusively Jewish road? That you all back the shelling and missile fire killing the old and the young in the Gaza Strip?

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Could it be that you all agree that a third of the West Bank (the Jordan Valley) should be off limits to Palestinians? That you all side with an Israeli policy that prevents tens of thousands of Palestinians who have obtained foreign citizenship from returning to their families in the occupied territories?

Could your mind really be so w"