Posted by Kevin Bates For instance the fact that 60% of all Palestinians living in Gaza are living below the poverty line - that is on less that $US2/day. Medicines, food and other aid is increasingly hard to come by because of the brutality of the Israeli occupation and barricading of their homeland. Likewise in Zimbabwe, the daily grind of repression there was briefly highlighted during and following a couple of World Cup Cricket matches there - and then the lid slammed down again. People are arrested and held long-term without charge, farms this year are producing disastrously little food, due to drought and mismanagement, and people are living in fear and terror all across the country. The weapons of mass destruction are fear, repression and the denial of basic rights. The US has been saying very little about these situations - obsessed instead with Iraq and their sworn enemy Saddam Hussein - whose arms and weapons capability was only enabled through US help some years' ago. When will we ever find a path to real justice in the international community? Hope does not run strong at the moment.
on March 9, 2003, 9:47 am
The US and its friends such as Australia, are so absorbed in Iraq- a country of 22 million with a few weapons left to destroy, that they are quite oblivious it seems to other disasters around the place.
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