Reuters
A Palestinian woman walks past a wall with graffiti depicting a gunman
It’s the show that time and the world forgot. It’s called the Occupation and it’s now in its 45th year. Playing on a landscape about the size of Delaware, it remains largely hidden from view, while Middle Eastern headlines from elsewhere seize the day. Diplomats
shuttle back and forth from Washington and Brussels to Middle Eastern capitals; the Israeli-Turkish alliance
ruptures amid bold declarations from the Turkish prime minister; crowds
storm the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, while Israeli ambassadors flee the Egyptian capital and
Amman, the Jordanian one; and of course, there’s the headliner, the show-stopper of the moment, the Palestinian Authority’s
campaign for statehood in the United Nations, which will prompt an Obama administration veto in the Security Council.
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