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Spending Where it Counts Re Inbox Dec. 22: Sol Kerzner, along with other South African hoteliers, donated a large sum to kick-start the fund for a new hotel school at the University of Johannesburg. Without this the school probably would not exist today. After the tragic death of Sol's son, the family started the Butch Kerzner memorial bursary fund for underprivileged gifted children to study in the hospitality industry. This will fund up to 10 children's studies next year. Beside all this is the example Kerzner has set for others to grow our industry. Henk Bredenoord...
...worthy ideals like education, enlightenment, and opportunities for all only to betray them for their own personal interest. As they became what they most hated, their socialism showed symptoms of the worst kind of individualistic and corrupted ethos. And those around the region who choose to remember a tragic revolution in positive light share a similar duplicity...
...While critics have charged that Israel continues to instigate the admittedly tragic violence in the region, they ignore the numerous efforts that the Israeli government has made to end the conflict. In the past decade, Israel has offered to withdraw from 97 percent of the West Bank, and has also unilaterally removed its forces from the Gaza Strip. But apparently even these well-intentioned efforts are not enough for the radical Hamas leadership, which has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel as a state and has called for its complete destruction. As Israel is—understandably—not going...
...Deal with Hamas The most immediate challenge facing Israel is that posed by Hamas. Gaza's tragedy has for days been playing out on the world's TV sets. By Jan. 7, more than 700 Palestinians, many of them noncombatants, had been killed. But there's something tragic, too, in Israel's predicament: in any confrontation with its enemies, it is damned if it does and doomed if it doesn't. Across Israel's political spectrum there seems to be a consensus that Hamas' provocative rocket barrages could not go unanswered - though whether Israel's response has been proportional...
...tens of millions of dollars Israel has invested in bomb shelters throughout the south, the early warning system it has installed, and the mass migration of Israelis from their homes to avoid the murderous rain of rockets falling daily from the sky. Civilian deaths are horrible and tragic, but to suggest that death ought to be the only measure of “proportionality” ignores the fact that, for seven years, Israeli civilians have lived under the constant terror of rocket fire...