Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, recently quoted as saying:
(I am saying) what no previous Israeli leader has ever said: we should withdraw from almost all of the territories, including in East Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in response:
We wish we had heard this personal opinion … (before) he resigned.
No shit. But this all pre-supposes the dead end that is the two-state solution. As Ghada Karmi wrote last week in The Guardian:
A unitary state is inevitable. Establishing an exclusive state defined along ethnic-religious lines and excluding its previous inhabitants was unjust and ultimately unsustainable. No political acrobatics will alter this. The sooner the UN, which unwisely created Israel in the first place, takes charge of the consequences, the better it will be for Palestinians, for Israelis and for the region as a whole.
Today I watched a bus driver in London half pull up to a bus stop and then pull away before stopping when he saw the only person waving him down. She happened to be a little old lady with dark skin and a head scarf. There were murmurs of distaste from the two people standing nearby her but she dismissed the problem with a wave of her hand and walked off.
There seems to have been a noticeable uptick in this sort of thing over the past few months.
Speaking of
Survival International, they’ve posted
a video on their website of gunmen hired by farmers to attack a
Makuxi Indian village in Brazil, part of a brutal attempt at an Indian land grab.
The correlation between this and Daniel Quinn’s alternative theory of the story of Cain and Abel is quite stark.
Here’s
just another example of why the term “anti-Semitism” has increasingly come to mean “mild criticism of Israeli government policies,” rather than “hostility to or prejudice against Jews.”
Something I’ve experienced myself.
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