Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:21
PM
Subject: Apartheid, Israeli
style.
June 24, 2003
The Editor,
The Globe and Mail.
Dear Editor:
In her interesting and informative analysis, comparing
the Palestine/Israel conflict to that in South Africa, Shira Herzog {" Follow
South Africa's lead" June 24} states: " Israel isn't governing the West Bank and
Gaza through an apartheid system..". Those who lived under the South African
apartheid sysem testify otherwise.
In a broadcast on the BBC, on April 29,2002,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, speaking with first hand experience, was quoted: "South
African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused Israel of practising apartheid
in its policies towards the Palestinians." He went on to say:"I've been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it
reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have
seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks,
suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving
about."
Nelson Mandela, not unfamiliar with racist
apartheid practices, in one of his early speeches after release from
prison, compared blacks in South Africa to Palestinians who are fighting
"against a unique form of colonialism."
I think that says it all.
Yours sincerely,
Ismail Zayid, M.D.