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Palestine matters, not Gillard-Rudd soapies
In the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, the Qdeh family's modest rabbit farm is one of several Australian trade union humanitarian aid (Apheda) projects which is bolstering food security for poor families.
On a Spring evening in April 2011, Najah Qdeh and her 21-year-old daughter Nidal were in their backyard preparing their family dinner over an open fire. Before the meal had been cooked, both women were killed by a missile fired from an Israeli drone. An eight-year-old daughter watched her mother and sister bleed to death. She became mute. Another daughter was seriously injured and still has shrapnel in her head.
The Israeli government held no investigation and would not consider holding anyone accountable. Who cares about poor Palestinians?
In January 2012, the America Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich said that Palestinians were "an invented people". A few days later Mustapha Tamini, Bahjat Zaalan and
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South Africa buries apartheid former president
President Thabo Mbeki, whose governing African National Congress party was brutally repressed during the turbulent years of Botha’s presidency, attended the funeral with his wife Zanele.
His attendance was an extraordinary gesture, but has angered some black people, who see it as a betrayal of all those who suffered under Botha’s regime.
Former President FW de Klerk, the last white president of South Africa and the man who ousted Botha in bitter fight for the control of the National Party in 1989, sat next to Mbeki during the funeral service in the tiny resort town of George, where the Outeniqua Mountains reach down to the Indian Ocean.
Many former members of Botha’s cabinet, National Party politicians and some officials from Mbeki’s office were also in the Mother Church, a majestic white Dutch Reform Church in the heart of George. White flowers decorated the church and Botha’s simple wooden coffin.
In accordance with Botha’s las
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Palestine matters, not Gillard-Rudd soapies
By Professor Stuart Rees:
In the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, the Qdeh family’s modest rabbit farm is one of several Australian trade union humanitarian aid (Apheda) projects which is bolstering food säkerhet for poor families.
On a Spring evening in April 2011, Najah Qdeh and her 21-year-old daughter Nidal were in their backyard preparing their family dinner over an open fire. Before the meal had been cooked, both women were killed by a missile fired from an Israeli drone. An eight-year-old daughter watched her mother and sister bleed to death. She became mute. Another daughter was seriously injured and still has shrapnel in her head.
The Israeli government held no investigation and would not consider holding anyone accountable. Who cares about poor Palestinians?
In January 2012, the America Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich said that Palestinians were “an invented people”. A few days l