This seminar is timely at a time when Arabs in Israel are crying foul over the Apartheid system that the Zionists have literally imposed on them since 1967. Timely because it is time we expose the hypocrisy and indeed, the endemic racist policies of the Arab world. I am afraid i do not have a grain of sympathy for these Arabs in their struggle for decency in Palestine. Indifference is how i feel now that i have discovered the racism and ethnic cleansing that are a way of life in these countries. Strange that it is a Black African in the form of Kofi Annan shuttling all over the world to bail out the Arabs whilst Arab racism is murdering Blacks in Libya and other countries and denying them their fundamental human rights in our back-yard, Mauritania. I wonder since when have Arab blood in Palestine become more precious than Black blood in say, Mauritania or Libya. Strange things indeed.

I wish participants in the seminar a good deliberation. And do keep us posted about developments.

Hamjatta Kanteh