Israel 70, Palestine 0
Happy 70th birthday to Israel.
While Israelis and their supporters around the world celebrate three score and ten years as a thriving economic engine in the Middle East, Palestinians have yet to celebrate a single year or even a single day as a nation.
Two million Palestinians suffer in unbearable squalor imposed upon them by Israel in Gaza, and get shot down like ducks on the pond when they protest. Meanwhile, Israeli expansion in Palestinian areas of the West Bank continues at breakneck pace. Israeli infrastructure consisting of roads, settlements, military bases and nearly 600 checkpoints gobbles up 40% of the West Bank. Jewish settler population in occupied territories exceeds 600,000.
US officials make trip after trip after trip to the region imploring the Israelis to cease their settlements on occupied Palestinian land and negotiate fairly for a two state solution. But until the US makes our annual three billion dollars in aid to Israel contingent on actual progress instead of lip service while settlements grow unabated, the long suffering Palestinians will continue to be the most neglected and dehumanized folks on the planet.
Happy 70th birthday to Israel.
While Israelis and their supporters around the world celebrate three score and ten years as a thriving economic engine in the Middle East, Palestinians have yet to celebrate a single year or even a single day as a nation.
Two million Palestinians suffer in unbearable squalor imposed upon them by Israel in Gaza, and get shot down like ducks on the pond when they protest. Meanwhile, Israeli expansion in Palestinian areas of the West Bank continues at breakneck pace. Israeli infrastructure consisting of roads, settlements, military bases and nearly 600 checkpoints gobbles up 40% of the West Bank. Jewish settler population in occupied territories exceeds 600,000.
US officials make trip after trip after trip to the region imploring the Israelis to cease their settlements on occupied Palestinian land and negotiate fairly for a two state solution. But until the US makes our annual three billion dollars in aid to Israel contingent on actual progress instead of lip service while settlements grow unabated, the long suffering Palestinians will continue to be the most neglected and dehumanized folks on the planet.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 4:35 PM
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