>In the end, you can't defend either apartheid or the
>occupation on the grounds of violent or stupid actions
>performed by those resisting it, because each involves
>institutionalized violence on a much larger scale."


"Stupid actions performed by those resisting it" ?

The ANC was stupid for DEFENDING their communities against psychotic racist Afrikaaners ?

The "actions" of the CHILDREN of the Soweto Uprising were STUPID ?
(you KNOW they were CHILDREN,right?)

What should they have done?
The ANC was a NON-VIOLENT organization for almost 50 years before the SHARPVILLE MASSACRE.
Patiently trying to REASON with psychotic , racist ASSHOLES.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa-SharpevilleMassacre-a.htm

Should the children of Soweto simply ACCEPTED their lot as SLAVES /sub-humans ?

Sometimes there is NO CHOICE but to FIGHT for what is rightfully yours.

Before you come with this type of slippery rhetoric -you have to KNOW the history and facts.

We are not talking about an EQUAL PLAYING of political diplomacy OR military combat..
The Afrikaaners on One Side /the ANC on the Other Side.
The Zionist Israel's on One Side and the Palestinians on the Other Side.

All things are NOT "equal".

The Afrikaaners and Israeli's were/are a FULLY EQUIPPED / Modern Military against mostly unarmed/law abiding CIVILIANs with no connection to any arm insurrection.

Its call "collective reprisals" and its against most international LAW.


So if you want to act like BOTH are equally blamable in these conflicts then..WOW..

"impartiality" has reached a new logic twisting , obfuscated LOW.