Ramzy Baroud: Cape of Good Hope; One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go |
2007-05-30 | I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched in its depth and meaning. | Before me is an awe-inspiring view: here the Atlantic’s frigid waters gently meet the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. They meet but don’t collide. The harmony is seamless; the greatness of this view is humbling. ... “Where are the Black Africans?” was the first question to come to mind as a friend’s car escorted me a distance from the Cape Town International Airport. ... My friend needed not respond however, as the car soon hurriedly zoomed by a “squatters’ camp”; no slum can be compared to this, no refugee camp. Innumerable people are crammed in the tiniest and crudest looking “houses” made of whatever those poor people could find laying around. It was not “temporary accommodations”, but permanent dwellings: here they live, marry, raise children and die. MORE http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-05240762040.htm Please also see: Stephen Lendman: Forty Years of Occupation http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-05240770609.htm Drones in the Skies of Gaza http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-05290760020.htm Bush administration endorses anti-Palestinian anti-Syrian offensive in Lebanon http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/leba-m25.shtml |