Almost every day that is exactly the way we are playing the Israeli-Palestinian war. No matter how many youths are shot dead by the Israelis, no matter how many murders – by either side – and no matter how bloody the reputation of the Israeli Prime Minister, we are reporting this terrible conflict as if we supported the South African whites against the blacks.

No, Israel is not South Africa (though it happily supported the apartheid regime) and no, the Palestinians are not the blacks of the shanty towns.

But there's not much difference between Gaza and the black slums of Johannesburg.

There's not much difference between the tactics of the Israeli army in the occupied territories and [b]...

Almost every day that is exactly the way we are playing the Israeli-Palestinian war. No matter how many youths are shot dead by the Israelis, no matter how many murders – by either side – and no matter how bloody the reputation of the Israeli Prime Minister, we are reporting this terrible conflict as if we supported the South African whites against the blacks.

No, Israel is not South Africa (though it happily supported the apartheid regime) and no, the Palestinians are not the blacks of the shanty towns.

But there's not much difference between Gaza and the black slums of Johannesburg.

There's not much difference between the tactics of the Israeli army in the occupied territories and that of the South African police.

The apartheid regime had death squads, just as Israel has today.

Yet even they did not use helicopter gunships and missiles.

... R Fisk

Pitim,
such images would bring a lump in anyone's throat. I'm against innocents being used to make their mother's death for further use. I'm against tutoring them so that they in turn feel obliged to honour their mother's memory by repeating this act. I wonder what wrong there must so that a mother of such beautiful children felt the need to sacrifice her life and leave her children motherless.

I do know who can stop this cycle. I do know whose responsibility it is to ensure that no further mothers feel obliged to make the ultimate sacrifice. It is always the duty of the state. In a case of a planted state, it is very much the state's responsibility.

When the state is stealing th...

Pitim,
such images would bring a lump in anyone's throat. I'm against innocents being used to make their mother's death for further use. I'm against tutoring them so that they in turn feel obliged to honour their mother's memory by repeating this act. I wonder what wrong there must so that a mother of such beautiful children felt the need to sacrifice her life and leave her children motherless.

I do know who can stop this cycle. I do know whose responsibility it is to ensure that no further mothers feel obliged to make the ultimate sacrifice. It is always the duty of the state. In a case of a planted state, it is very much the state's responsibility.

When the state is stealing the land of even its own citizens of a different religion, when it is ethnically cleansing the native population, when it is importing outsiders and granting them instant citizenship while denying the children of natives of hundreds of years so to create an artificial majority, when it builds apartheid walls to ensue movement between native villages impossible, when it allows settlements by foreign scum on land they don't own, when they steal the natives water after they've used up all their own. when they direct their sewerage on to the native land, when the tear up 1,000 year old olive trees that sustained the natives since the time of Christ, when, when, when, I could for days.

I've not mentioned the targeted assassinations, the torture, the wholesale imprisoning, attacks on neighbouring states, the constant wars, the nuclear weapons, the disruption to world peace, the war crimes, the continuous breach of UN resolutions, the internal corruption, the rapist president, its assassinated of a PM, and on and on. Depressing.

How many more motherless children will this Zionist abomination be responsible for?