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Eggman: for your information (being as on the evdience of what you have written), no I haven't been to Apartheid-era South Africa. But if we have not seen something for ourselves, does that mean that people shouldn't criticise something? Many people would feel uncomfortable going on holiday to South Africa during Apartheid or to Spain during Franco's time. If I did not experience the atrocities of Nazi Germany first hand, does that mean i should not criticise them? As for the Apartheid comparisons, these have come to me first hand from the South Africans I met travelling there, who were appalled by what they saw. The blame does not lie solely with Israel, but there is a difference between security measures and racism. 'Did you speak with any Arabs?' is a racist question, PURE AND SIMPLE.

Fri 05 Jun, 2009

Waters has been to Israel. I spent five months there in 1995-6 and went back in 1998 for two weeks. The Israeli treatment of the Palestinians is appalling, and on every occasion on leaving Israel I was actually asked 'Have you spoken with any Arabs?' When I said yes, I nearly got strip-searched. There are many people working for peace there, from many backgrounds. But what is going on in Israel, which I have seen for myself first-hand is nothing less than Apartheid being carried out by the Israeli government and absolutely nothing on earth can justify this. The heavy-handed security checks carried out by many countries now are nothing compared to what the Israelis were doing fifteen years ago. The national airline, El-Al make everyone feel like a terrorist. There are two peoples on quest for a homeland, and unacceptable actions carried out by both sides. Like I say, I have been there and seen it for myself, and have studied the history not just of the last sixty years but the last 3,000 years.

Thu 04 Jun, 2009

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