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Israel and the Palestinians: The facts speak for themselves

Isreal has made much of the fact that it withdrew from Gaza. Despite that the strangehold, in effect, by Israelis of Gaza continues. Meanwhile, notwithstanding Israel stating that it would not further develop settlements on the West Bank it has just announced funding for the very such thing.

Israel speaks with a forked-tongue, especially as all the evidence is there to support what Jimmy Carter has been saying - Israel is conducting apartheid-like policies - with which many Israelis agree, whilst Jews outside Israel loudly condemn Carter as been anti-semitic and dead wrong.

"All the promises to relax restrictions in the West Bank have obscured the true picture. A few roadblocks have been removed, but the following prohibitions have remained in place. (This information was gathered by Haaretz, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Machsom Watch)"

Amira Haas writing in Haaretz pulls together the facts and statistics. They are horrific! They also confirm one, and one thing only. Israeli's policies and actions stand roundly condemned - and it is easy to see why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has nowhere to go [nothwithstanding all the talk of "road maps, meetings between leaders, Condi visiting the Middle East, etc. etc.] unless Israeli's actions are curbed and stopped altogether.

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Michael said…
Perhaps you can answer a couple of questions:

First, with all of Israel's "apartheid" and "genocide" policies, how did the palestinian population manage to triple over the last 40 years?

Second, why are various palestinian atrocities (the wanton destruction of Joseph's Tomb; the April, 1979 murders of the Haran family; the increased rain of kassam rockets following the Gaza withdrawal, to give 3 examples) not evidence of genocidal policies?

Finally, why can Hezbollah make statements like this:
"Our goal is to liberate the 1948 borders of Palestine," he added, referring to the year of Israel's founding. The Jews who survive this war of liberation, Ezzeddin said, "can go back to Germany, or wherever they came from."
to the New Yorker Magazine, and yet no one complains that they want to "ethnically cleanse" Israel?

I am curious to hear your answers.
January 22, 2007 2:21 am
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