Saturday, August 13, 2011

A banker, ardent supporter of Israel visits occupied Palestine and discovers the horror..

Apartheid On Steroids
Stephen Robert-The Nation
"What I witnessed in the West Bank—home to about 2.5 million Palestinians and 400,000 Israeli settlers—exceeded my worst expectations. While the world’s statesmen have dithered, Israel has created a system of apartheid on steroids, a horrifying prison with concrete walls as high as twenty-six feet, topped with body-ravaging coils of razor wire. Spaced along these walls are imposing guard towers that harbor bunkers from which trespassers can be shot by Israeli soldiers. From this physical segregation—one land for Israelis; another, unequal land for Palestinians—flows a torrent of misery, violence and human rights abuses. The West Bank suffers from acute shortages of water, housing, jobs and healthcare. Palestinian children are separated from their parents, denied access to hospitals and stoned and beaten by Jewish settlers. Human rights sanctioned by international law, including the right to health, the prohibition on transferring populations into occupied territories and equal treatment before the law are routinely violated."
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4 comments:

  1. <span>It's here, the Zionist dream! The super Jew shows who is boss to the Arab animal! Enjoy your love for Israel anan butthole!
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  2. "Forgive them Lord for they know not what they do."

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  3. And let's not forget to turn the other cheek. It feels so good!

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  4. <span>"Forgive them Lord for they know not what they do."</span>
    <span>You canting hypocrite.</span>
    <span>"Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." (Matthew 23, 28)</span>

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