By Iqbal Jassat
(Iqbal Jassat is chairperson of the Media Review Network (MRN), an advocacy group based in Pretoria, South Africa)
Palestine Chronicle
"How do you define a geographic location whose borders, security, natural resources, public planning, public works and infrastructure, trade, industrial development, air and cyberspace are not in its own control?
To name it a “Bantustan” would be being polite to those who retain effective or empirical authority over all these matters.
For in the South African context the concept of “Homelands” which resulted in ethnic autonomous zones known as “Bantustans”, while having many parallels with the Israeli model of a Palestinian “state”, is somewhat tame!
Indeed, the Zionist scheme for a Palestinian ghetto is far worse.
It is in fact far removed from basic characteristics that define sovereignty.
It thus astonishes one that the Palestinian Authority [PA] fails to comprehend what many first year students of political science would grasp with ease: a ghetto is a ghetto is a ghetto!......"
(Iqbal Jassat is chairperson of the Media Review Network (MRN), an advocacy group based in Pretoria, South Africa)
Palestine Chronicle
"How do you define a geographic location whose borders, security, natural resources, public planning, public works and infrastructure, trade, industrial development, air and cyberspace are not in its own control?
To name it a “Bantustan” would be being polite to those who retain effective or empirical authority over all these matters.
For in the South African context the concept of “Homelands” which resulted in ethnic autonomous zones known as “Bantustans”, while having many parallels with the Israeli model of a Palestinian “state”, is somewhat tame!
Indeed, the Zionist scheme for a Palestinian ghetto is far worse.
It is in fact far removed from basic characteristics that define sovereignty.
It thus astonishes one that the Palestinian Authority [PA] fails to comprehend what many first year students of political science would grasp with ease: a ghetto is a ghetto is a ghetto!......"
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