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33782, US ghettos is Candyland compared to Palestine.
Posted by fatlip, Mon Feb-11-08 03:01 PM
in what hood in the US do you see the federal government flying over in apache helicopters and shooting missles directly into project housing on a daily basis?

in what hood do you see the feds literally rolling tanks in and blasting buildings down?

in what part of the US do you have 450,000 locked into a space of 58 square miles living on much less than a dollar a day and unable to get goods/food/medicine in or out of that area?

although palestine has been turned into a "ghetto" - the similarities end there. there are some really desperate spots in the US to be sure (baltimore, new orleans, chicago, the list goes on)....

but in palestine the term "ghetto" is not just figurative, its literal.

irony of that recent drum beating sensationalist MTV spot saying "the Holocaust happened to real people - THINK"...is that the most stark example of the ghettoization of people of a specific religion/background/culture is what is happening in Palestine. (before people flip, clearly i'm not talking about gasing, but watch the Acadamy Award winning film "The Piano" about Nazi ghettos in Poland, then visit Palestine, and tell me how different they are. :/ )