 | | 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.
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“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.
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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
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