The Har Homa settlement in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu defied calls for a halt to settlement expansion in his speech last week
When one views the photo above it is hard to envisage the Israelis withdrawing from this so-called settlement and many others like it. This isn't an outpost of a handful of
tents and caravans with a few dozen people occupying them.
Writing in The Electronic Intifada in "Netanyahu's "brilliant" peace plan", Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah, say:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a peace plan so ingenious it is a wonder that for six decades of bloodshed no one thought of it. Some people might have missed the true brilliance of his ideas presented in a speech at Bar Ilan University on 14 June, so we are pleased to offer this analysis."
And:
"It would be nice if we could really dismiss Netanyahu's speech as a joke. But it is an important indicator of a hard reality. Contrary to some naive and optimistic hopes, Netanyahu does not represent only an extremist fringe in Israel. Today, the Israeli Jewish public presents (with a handful of exceptions) a united front in favor of a racist, violent ultra-nationalism fueled by religious fanaticism. Palestinians are viewed at best as inferiors to be tolerated until circumstances arise in which they can be expelled, or caged and starved like the 1.5 million inmates of the Gaza prison.
Israel is a society where virulent anti-Arab racism and Nakba denial are the norm although none of the European and American leaders who constantly lecture about Holocaust denial will dare to admonish Netanyahu for his bald lies and omissions about Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians."
If you want to read what the situation in Gaza is like at present, go no further than this piece "President Carter and Citizen Activists Witness Destruction in Gaza" on CommonDreams. Mind-boggling are the only words which can describe this on-going situation and the world turning away from doing anything about it.
Writing in The Electronic Intifada in "Netanyahu's "brilliant" peace plan", Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah, say:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a peace plan so ingenious it is a wonder that for six decades of bloodshed no one thought of it. Some people might have missed the true brilliance of his ideas presented in a speech at Bar Ilan University on 14 June, so we are pleased to offer this analysis."
And:
"It would be nice if we could really dismiss Netanyahu's speech as a joke. But it is an important indicator of a hard reality. Contrary to some naive and optimistic hopes, Netanyahu does not represent only an extremist fringe in Israel. Today, the Israeli Jewish public presents (with a handful of exceptions) a united front in favor of a racist, violent ultra-nationalism fueled by religious fanaticism. Palestinians are viewed at best as inferiors to be tolerated until circumstances arise in which they can be expelled, or caged and starved like the 1.5 million inmates of the Gaza prison.
Israel is a society where virulent anti-Arab racism and Nakba denial are the norm although none of the European and American leaders who constantly lecture about Holocaust denial will dare to admonish Netanyahu for his bald lies and omissions about Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians."
If you want to read what the situation in Gaza is like at present, go no further than this piece "President Carter and Citizen Activists Witness Destruction in Gaza" on CommonDreams. Mind-boggling are the only words which can describe this on-going situation and the world turning away from doing anything about it.
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