"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Andy Hunt wrote:
Thanks Nick, this is very interesting.

What you say confirms what Franz was saying about many
African countries in
the first place.

Do I take it from what you write that you are comparing
the current
situation in the Palestinian territories to that in the
REST of Africa,
rather than in South Africa . . . ?

"Don't regard the situations as similar"

No, because African injustices over the past 50 years have
varied
from the negligible to as bad as the Nazis. What I am
saying is
that apartheid in South Africa was never as systematic a
repression
as was made out by the UK propaganda, and that the
repression was
never anywhere near as bad as is being visited on the
Palestinians.

True, but the situation in SA was an exploitation of the
black people, and a positive prevention of allowing them to
acquire either skills or education beyond the bare minimum.

Franz