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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Where Is The Outcry Against Arab Apartheid?

While Israel Apartheid Week goes on around the world, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in Lebanon died at a hospital entrance in Lebanon because his family lacked the funds to pay for medical treatment.  Where is the cry of outrage about the treatment of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan?
Mohammed Nabil Taha, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, died this week at the entrance to a Lebanese hospital after doctors refused to help him because his family could not afford to pay for medical treatment.
The tragic case of Taha highlights the plight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who live in impoverished refugee camps in Lebanon and who are the victims of an Apartheid system that denies them access to work, education and medical care.
Ironically, the boy's death at the entrance to the hospital coincided with Israel Apartheid Week, a festival of hatred and incitement organized by anti-Israel activists on university campuses in the US, Canada and other countries.
Read more at Hudson New York

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