[Peace-discuss] A People Abandoned

[Morton K. Brussel]

This from Le Monde Diplomatique. It concludes:

With this sort of backing [from Europe and the United States], the  
main Israeli parties’ aim seems to be clear: to destroy any prospect  
of achieving the internationally recognised aim of establishing a  
genuine Palestinian state. The West Bank will continue to be an  
amorphous collection of homelands, criss-crossed with walls and  
roadblocks, dotted with settlements, and drip-fed by the European  
Union. And Gaza will be bombed whenever its neighbour has a mind to  
unleash a disproportionate “response” to rocket or other attacks. In  
fact, after 60 years of defeat, humiliation, exile, violation of  
signed agreements, colonisation and internecine feuding, after  
governments all over the world have abandoned them to their fate and  
allowed international law, including international humanitarian law,  
to be ridden over roughshod, it is nothing short of a miracle that  
the Palestinians are still determined to assert their national  
identity in real terms.

If they succeed, it will not be thanks to the Europeans, or to the  
Americans or to most Arab states. In Gaza, these powers have all  
conspired once again in the interminable spoliation of a nation.

The comnlete editorial is at

  http://mondediplo.com/2009/02/01abandoned
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