Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria

By Chris McGreal
February 7, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
Original Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1704036,00.html

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But South African apartheid was more than just separation. Apartheid was all about land, says John Dugard, the South African lawyer and UN human rights monitor. Apartheid was about keeping the best parts of the country for the whites and sending the blacks to the least habitable, least desirable parts of the country. And one sees that all the time here [in the occupied territories], particularly with the wall, now, which is really a land grab. One sees Palestinians dispossessed of their homes by bulldozers. One can draw certain parallels with respect to South Africa that, during the heyday of apartheid, population relocation did result in destruction of property, but not on the same scale as the devastation in Gaza in particular, [or in] the West Bank.
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