Israel's Dilemma in Palestine

A Land With People, For a People with a Plan

LUDWIG WATZAL

Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, "beautiful, but married to another man". By which they
meant that, if a place was to be found for a Jewish "homeland" in
Palestine, the indigenous inhabitants had to leave. Where should the
people of Palestine go? Squaring that circle has been the essence of
Israel´s dilemma ever since its establishment and the cause of the
Palestinian tragedy that it led to. It has remained insoluble. Ghada
Karmi's new book, Married To Another Man, Israel´s Dilemma in
Palestine, (published by Pluto Press, London-Ann Arbor) shows that
the major reason for this failure was the original and unresolved
Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a
land inhabited by another people. Zionism was never able to resolve
the problem of "the other man"....Read the full article / Leggi
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Stranded Palestinians at the Egyptian side enter their 4th month of
suffering Palestinian Information Center

The number of Palestinians stranded at the Egyptian side of the
borders with the Gaza Strip has risen to 1,400, Egyptian sources
announced on Tuesday, adding that they might be transferred next
Sunday via Israeli-controlled Oja crossing into Gaza. A number of
those stranded at the Egyptian city of Arish said that they started
their fourth month of suffering amidst complete disregard on the
part of the Palestinian embassy in Cairo that sent about 20 dollars
for each one carrying a Palestinian passport....
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Israel: perpetual criminal, perpetual liar
Comment by Khalid Amayreh

Just as the Nazis sought to concoct "reasons" to justify their
criminality, the Zionist state of Israel and its fanatical
supporters are doing the same thing to justify the slow-motion
genocide the Jewish state is carrying out against the Gaza Strip's
1.4 million inhabitants. Israeli spokespersons and apologists,
especially in North America, where Zionist Jews control the bulk of
the mass media, routinely claim that Israel has no moral or legal
obligation to feed and cater for the blockaded Gazans. This is, of
course, a blatantly misleading argument, because Israel is
still "the occupying power" in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli army
is still in tight control of Gaza's skies, territorial waters and
all border crossings....Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo
completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=37987

Khudari: More than 1,000 patients in Gaza require urgent treatment
abroad Palestinian Information Center

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti-sanctions
committee, said that there are more than 1,000 Palestinian patients
awaiting urgent treatment abroad but cannot because of the imposed
siege on the Gaza Strip, which, he asserted, is contrary to all
international norms and human rights, and called for the immediate
opening of the Rafah border crossing before the situation in Gaza
explodes. In a press conference held on Tuesday at the Shifa
Hospital in Gaza during a sit-in staged by Palestinian patients,
Khudari stated that the Palestinian patients in Gaza are threatened
with slow death and every day that passes new cases come to the
surface. The committee's head called on human rights organizations
to pressure the Israeli occupation in order to open the crossing for
the citizens, highlighting that the continuing closure of the
crossings will cause Gaza explode any time....Read the full
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ISRAEL ADMITS THERE WILL BE NO PEACE AFTER THE SUMMIT
Desert Peace

It looks like Israel is realy serious about the upcoming 'peace
talks'... according to the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak
(which btw means lightening in Hebrew), there will not be a planned
invasion of the Balata refugee camp until AFTER the talks are
finished.... key word is AFTER. In other words, Israel has already
admitted that NOTHING WILL CHANGE as a result of the talks. And you,
my dear American readers are paying for that farce with your tax
dollars....Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=37959

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