Posted by: zanshin, 2008-12-06 03:03

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Date: 2008-11-24 (Monday)
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians was like "the apartheid of an earlier era.
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We must not be afraid to call something what it is" since the UN passed the International Convention against the crime of apartheid.
-- According to Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, UN General Assembly president, remarks at an annual debate marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People






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