Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:34:58 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eldorra=20mitchell?= <manynotone-AT-yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: another poet: yehuda amichai, from israel



Kicking all of the whites out of one country would not
be so bad. The whites need to be kicked out more
often, then they might know.
yours.

 --- Wolf Factory <wolf_factory-AT-yahoo.com> wrote: > >
Reading that declaration, I couldnt help but think
> that perhaps 'blacks' should take over one state,
> kick
> out all its non-black inhabitants, then protest by
> saying 'look the white people have 49 states, why do
> they begrudge us one?' Or alternatively take a mid
> western state and declare ' a land without people
> for
> a people without land' (a Zionist slogan that ran
> for
> years until it became too embarrassing to uphold
> against the mounting historical evidence which shows
> that Palestine was far from an empty place before
> 1948) . 
> 
> Then when the white inhabitants of that state, many
> of
> whom will be pushed into one corner demand that they
> should be allowed to keep at least a small portion
> of
> the land, the blacks can go in with tanks and
> bulldozers and 'clean up the white neighborhoods'
> and
> if the whites dare to fight back, they would be
> labeled as terrorists.
> 
> Israel is both a colonial power AND an apartheid
> state. It is a colonial power because it is
> occupying
> someone elses land (west bank and Gaza) and it is an
> apartheid state because it describes itself as being
> Jewish while 20% of its population are non-Jews (and
> I
> am taking here about Israel proper, not about the
> west
> bank or Gaza).  Its non-Jewish inhabitants are
> underrepresented in parliament and are discriminated
> against in a systematic fashion. 
> 
> In other words, Israel is closer to South Africa
> under
> apartheid than it is to any modern democratic
> country.
> For a black person to find solidarity with such a
> nation amounts to condoning racism and segregation.
> W.F.
> 
> 

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