Wednesday, September 19, 2007

It Is Unjust and Absurd To Apply Economics To The Hell That Is Palestine

The Guardian/UK, September 18, 2007

The government must acknowledge the present catastrophe in Palestine is a direct consequence of Israeli intransigence

by Karma Nabulsi

No people, territory or issue on earth have had more international attention devoted to them than Palestine and its people. Yet no conflict looks further from resolution, and no people further from achieving the freedom promised them. More Palestinians lack more basic freedoms today than they did 60 years ago. While an expensive and extensive peace process was in full swing, Israel managed to illegally expropriate most of the occupied West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem, install hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers, kill more Palestinian families, arrest more young men, destroy more crops, homes and businesses, build a monstrous wall deemed illegal by the international court of justice, and set forth, unchecked, a policy of aggressive expansionism in Palestine that continues until this moment.

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