Cape Argus (South Africa) November 01, 2012

The human brain is indeed wonderful.

The supposedly more intellectually endowed can sophistically manoeuvre their way out of the minefield of oppressive apartheid systems and "prove" that oppression is good for the victims and, as in the case of Machiavellian Michael John ("Arabs authored their own woes", Cape Points, October 30), that the Palestinians are responsible for the grotesque inhumanity they suffer at the hands of the racist Zionist Israeli entity. 

Without cataloguing the litany of savagery and the oppressive nature of the inhuman Zionist machinery since their planned ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as detailed by among others, Israeli-Russian journalist Lia Tarachansky's documentary citing testimony of Israeli soldiers, one could cite Israeli historians such as Ilan Pappe who quotes from Israeli state archives and, right now, the orders of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak to demolish eight Palestinian villages ostensibly for military training.

As in the past, after some years the land will be used for a new Israeli Jewish settlement.

John has to oblige with one answer only: if the Israelis are really serious about a settlement, even based on the two-state version, then why do they occupy or control 90 percent of the 40 percent of land apportioned to the Palestinians in 1948? Justice is on the side of the Palestinians and all justice-seeking Jews.

Abe Parker

Surrey Estate