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Nader R. Hasan’s otherwise insightful article was marred by the casual insertion of a dangerous and misleading phrase. The inclusion of “Israel’s apartheid policies” misrepresents the policies of the Israeli government, undermines American support for the only free and democratic state in the Middle East and delegitimizes those who suffered, and continue to suffer, under apartheid-like regimes...
...claim that Israel is a racist or apartheid state is an example of effective propaganda with no basis in reality. The insistent vilification of Israel, a country that grants all of its citizens, including a large Arab minority, full freedoms, civil rights and perhaps the best living conditions in the region, is and has been a ploy to deflect international and internal focus from the continual abuses of human rights in surrounding nations...
Admittedly, the sanctions against Iraq ought to be regarded as a crime against humanity. And yes, America’s unconditional support for Israel’s apartheid policies has angered many people around the world. But Osama bin Laden is not a champion of Palestinian rights, nor is he concerned with the children of Iraq. Osama bin Laden is not fighting on behalf of oppressed Muslims around the world. Instead, he fights to validate an interpretation of Islam that is offensive to most Muslims. Ask him why he wages war on America and he will tell you what...
...some in the NGO forum was contemptible. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were on sale; flyers asking (approvingly) WHAT IF HITLER HAD WON? were freely displayed. In more than one place in its rambling, incoherent, 474-paragraph-long "Declaration," the forum declared Israel to be a "racist, apartheid state." (The full text of the declaration is available at www.racism.org.za I urge readers to look at it.) Michael Salberg, a New York City attorney attending the conference as an observer for the Anti-Defamation League, says of the forum, "There is no way to have prepared myself...
...analysis as thin as the CD they're burned onto. But it does point to a potential flash point for the revival of protest music in the West: capital punishment in particular and law enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo created a mini-genre of tribute songs--Springsteen's heartfelt if monotonous American Skin, Wyclef Jean's lilting Diallo and Erykah Badu's oblique A.D. 2000. The justice system may be to the rebel music of the 21st century...