I’m really happy to have come across this and no doubt I will email soon. I happen to be looking at exactly the same incident for which I’ll be focusing on with my masters thesis.

I’m starting a blog to open a discussion on this topic, and hope to have a central point for discussion as I hunt for related blogs. I hope you, and any viewers with constructive arguments, take a look and once the content increases participate in discussion.

As for the Israel involvement in DR Congo, I can’t help but feel this is an unnecessary argument. Indeed they may have been involved but only at the behest of the larger elite nations such as USA, Britain and France. Therefore it seems like a weak argument, and a pointless one.

All the best,
Simon

Israeli state apparatus propped up the Mobutu dictatorship for years, laying the foundations for further conflicts in the country. Israeli interests are actively involved in the plundering of DR Congo’s natural resources, in liason with European actors.

http://gaza-peace-n-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/michel-hamas-is-responsible.html

From a very different but valid perspective:[/i]
- Really?

[i]In Africa, women with uncovered breast is absolute normal ubiquitous sight, provoking no criticism nor outrage: one can see naked people on documentary movies in abundance and we just shrug…[/i\]

I lived in Nigeria for 23 yrs and i never saw even ONE such “normal ubiquitous sight”. Please tell me where they are i would love to stare too.

[i]In Africa anything goes: genocide, rape, murder, tribal warfare, you name it – this is the normal state of all things ever since Lucy stood up on two feet.[/i]

Wow what part of Africa did i live in? Must be a different one from that Thomas is describing. Thomas must be living on another planet.

Nice how you pusrposefully misunderstood my sentnce in order: the people Mr Deave doesn’t give arat ass are Darfuris.

And now I remind you the best of them (Fialstinians) voted nearly two to one for a government who advocates genocide in addition to handle candy when a child is killed in cold blood and try to boimb maternities. Also, do I need to remind you that in Darfur you don’t need to look for the very best of them, not even the average one to find peoplewho dodn’t do the repugnant things the Filastinains do? Then why are you caring about nthem instead of the Darfuris?

You are not only lying: if IUsrael had wanted to kill them at will or, simply hold to a strict interpretation of Geneva: “avoid bombing civilian zones where no enemies are stationed but go for enemy and if civilians die because it has intermingled with them it is enenemy’s fault not ours so shhot prisoners for the war crime ofg endangering civilians” (yes taht is what Geneva says, that makes war crime not pay) there would be a hundred thousand dead by now.

You are also avoiding to ask my question. How many times have you demonstrated in front of the Soudanese embassy? How much time have you spent for them? And given that, unlike Palestinians Black Sudanese are being killed at will and that unlike Palestinians they have never tried to bomb maternities tell me why you don’t give a rat ass for them and care so much for people repugnant enough to try a suicide bombing on maternity.

And also to kill them at will.