Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the US request with a big concrete slap
Johann Hari
March 12, 2010 "The Independent" -- Could the Israeli government make it any more obvious they have no intention of sharing the Over-Promised Land with its other inhabitants?
How does this look to the Palestinians? Their story is so rarely explained without disinformation that it still seems startling when it is stated plainly. Until 1948, the Palestinians were living in their own homes, on their own land - until they were suddenly driven out in a war to make way for a new state for people fleeing a monstrous European genocide. They lived huddled and dazed in the 20 per cent of their land they were allowed to keep. They hardly fought back: they wept and dreamed of return. Then in the 1967 war, even these small strips were conquered with tanks and platoons.
Day by day since then, the remaining Palestinian land has been taken and given to fundamentalist settlers who claim it was given to them by God. They watched while Israeli Prime Ministers said they didn't exist - "there are no Palestinians", announced Golda Meir - or described them as animals: Menachem Begin called them "beasts walking on two legs", while Yitzhak Shamir said they should be "crushed like grasshoppers... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." They tried peacefully resisting, launching a programme of sit-downs and civil disobedience. Yitzhak Rabin responded by ordering the occupying Israeli army to "break their bones." After decades of this treatment, they fought back with violence - some of it targeted horribly and unacceptably at Israeli civilians.
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I have long been a fan of Johann Hari.
ReplyDeleteO really? I thought you don't like the Brits. Especially the ones on the left"
ReplyDelete"Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous".<sup></sup><span>[</span>1<span>]</span> He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari
<span>O really? I thought you don't like the Brits. Especially the ones on the left"
ReplyDelete"Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous".<sup></sup><span>[</span>1<span>]</span> He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari</span>
<span><span>O really? I thought you don't like the Brits. Especially the ones on the left"
ReplyDelete"Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous".<sup></sup><span>[</span>1<span>]</span> He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari</span></span>
I like the Hitch and Johann Hari even though they are both atheistic leftists and British.
ReplyDeleteIts the bad Brits I don't like.
Hitch and Johann have long been supporters of Palestine.