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The foundations for apartheid were laid in the policies outlined by a commission set up in 1905 by the British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner. Asked to come up with strategies to deal with the 'Native question', the commission proposed segregation between black and white, and the creation of 'locations'for blacks on the fringes of the cities and the towns.

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the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 has survived as a now institutionalized “genocide.” But it has done so in the face of intractable problems: the NATO-organized and compliant Yugoslav Tribunal identified it as such by finding that there could be genocide in one small town, where the genocidists had bussed to safety all the women and children of their target population, and where the claims of 8,000 executed have never been verified by forensic or credible witness evidence of anything like this scale of killing. It lives on by virtue of its political utility and aggressive challenges to its truthfulness as “revisionism” and “denial.”

— Edward Herman

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Submitted by antarchi on September 9, 2007 - 14:18.

With around 80 per cent of Gazans now surviving on less than £1 a day, families are living on food parcels from the UN. They cannot even fish to supplement their diets because Israeli gunboats fire on any vessels more than a mile offshore. Eighty five per cent of manufacturing businesses are now closed, according to the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs.
This blockade has forced the UN to suspend over £45 million worth of construction projects for homes, schools and sewage treatment in Gaza because cement and other building supplies have run out and Israel blocks further supplies. The 121,000 people previously employed on these UN projects have been forced to join the 70 per cent of Gazans already unemployed.
Borders are closed even to imports of paper for textbooks for UN schools in Gaza, and residents are effectively imprisoned.

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