- In South Africa and the frenzied cries from our pols
and press that there's nothing racist about Israel and Zionism.
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- The matter is really puzzling. I, therefore, crave enlightenment.
But I don t think I ll get it from Hedy Fry, our multicult minister who
has gone to Durban looking for burning crosses.
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- Take the expression ethnic cleansing , of which our
lot in Ottawa say the IsraeIis are innocent. It first saw the light during
that little war in the Balkans. There was nothing new about it, however.
It has been going on since Paleolithic times.and the Israelis are expert
at it.
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- It started in what used to be Palestine the moment Israel
was created. Three-quarters of a million Palestinians were chased out,
and they and their children have been refugees ever since.
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- Take terrorism. President Bush apparently blames the
dispossessed for it. Perhaps he has never heard of Menachem Begin, who
in 1948 filled wells with murdered Palestinians of all ages at a place
called Deir Yassin. Begin later become the prime minister. And he had
no difficulty in coming to Canada on fund-raising trips.
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- How about Ariel Sharon? He was the guy who as the Israeli
defence minister in 1982 gave the green light to the massacres at the
Sabron and Chatilla refugee camps in which at least a thousand Palestinians
ended up dead. It caused such a scandal, even in Israel, that he was forced
to resign. But I suppose all has been forgiven, since he is now the prime
minister. In the U.K., though, a BBC program concluded that Sharon could
be put on trial for war crimes. More anti-Semitism!
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- Begin, Sharon, Yitzak Shamir, and Yitzak Rabin, prime
ministers all, have each deserved the title of terrorist. But they are
never named as such in our media. That sort of thing is reserved for Yasser
Arafat & Co.
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- You don t get much of the Palestinian side of the story
but last year PBS did get around to telling some of it in a documentary
called The People and the Land. It showed how the Palestinians are still
being thrown out of their homes and land to make room for Jewish settlers
. And how Israel takes not the slightest notice of U.N. resolutions condemning
such things.
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- At the time the program was aired, 140,000 Jews had
been moved in and thousands of Palestinian homes had been destroyed. They
are now, as the commentator put it, 100 per cent segregated communities
that are in effect dozens of little South Africas . Palestinians are
not even allowed to walk in those districts.
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- Also in Israel, ethnicity is a factor in what sort of
number plate you get for your car. If you are a Jew, it s yellow. If you
are a Palestinian, it s white, or blue if you live on the occupied West
Bank. That isn t racist, of course. But if it isn t, what is? And what
do you call a system in which race and religion determine whether you
can go to Israel to live? Any Jew from anywhere in the world can become
an Israeli citizen, but Palestinians who have emigrated cannot go back
to the country that was once theirs.
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- In view of all this I was perplexed to read a piece
from the Calgary Herald in which the Palestinians were compared to the
Nazis. It seems that they are oppressing the Jews, not the other way round.
The writer was associate editor Paul Jackson, and at first I thought he
was putting his readers on. But then it dawned on me that he was off his
rocker. Living in Israel today is like living in Nazi Germany, he wrote.
It s open season on the Jewish people and, as in Nazi Germany, the world
apparently doesn t care.
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- In his view, the suicide bombers and other acts of desperation
by Palestinians is a Nazi-like activity. So, presumably, is the rock throwing
by Palestinian kids against Israelis armed with guns. Pardon me if this
gets confusing, And yes, I know about concentration camps. But I never
heard of the Nazis stacking themselves with explosives and blowing themselves
up, etc.
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- Jackson must be looking over his shoulder at Izzy Asper
& Co., who own the Herald. He s probably looking for promotion and
I m sure he ll get it, IzzyPress being pro-Zionist to the extent of ordering
its minions to run editorials from the Jerusalem Post.
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- Racism? Of course Israel is a racist state. It s just
that no Western leaders want to admit it, there being far more Jewish
power in the West than Arab.
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- Why do you think that at last count the U.S. had given
$77 billion in aid to Israel? Which, as that PBS program reported, is
seven times as much as it has given to the whole of Black Africa?
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- As George Orwell put it, two and two make five, war
is peace, and freedom is slavery. -- Dou Collins ___
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- Doug Collins, was a World War 11 hero -- eleven escapes
from German PoW camps. He has had 55 years of journalistic experience
in Canada, with the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, CBC, and most recently
as a columnist with the NORTH SHORE NEWS. He was the victim of a B.C.
Human Rights Tribunal and was fined for some of his controversial columns.
The case is now working its way toward an appeal in the courts. He is
being backed in this appeal by the Canadian Association for Free Expression.
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