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- sarahlee, on 01/28/2009, -1/+40I thought this was an excellent program.
- ecko3r, on 01/28/2009, -1/+38Never thought I would see this on US television...I hope this is the beginning of a new trend...
- yacinebouatrous, on 01/29/2009, -1/+26It's nice to see some people are starting to wake up to the oppression in Palestine. lets hope more follow
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -2/+26Here's the actual 60 minutes episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYAgyv2MKyI - inactive, on 01/29/2009, -1/+24Very good article by Mr. Greenwald, as usual.
Some interesting links are included - make sure that you read Abe Foxman's letter to CBS for a good chuckle!
There is a hopeful trend towards peace and fairness for Israel and Palestine, but that trend is NOT happening in Israel. To the contrary, Israel is turning increasingly towards the One-State ethnically cleansed solution to the Palestine-Israel conundrum. The election will probably be won by Netanyahu who said that he "would let Jewish settlements expand in the West Bank if he's elected prime minister."
I heard on NPR last night that over a third of the IDF's officer corps now comes from the settler families or the hard-line religious groups. The vile settler lady in the 60 Minutes piece states that if the government tries to force the settlers off of their land that there will be a mutiny in the army. That is probably true.
Jimmy Carter has laid out the three possible denouements of this tragic situation.
1.- The two state solution, being a wise man, Carter realizes that it will be impossible to dislodge most of the "stubborn" settlers. So his suggestion is to let the majority of the settlements stay, especially those closest to the Israeli border, and then have Israel trade an equal amount of quality land (such as land around Nazereth) to the Palestinians.
2.- The one state solution that incorporates the Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank. The common understanding in the press and the foreign service is that this is the outcome that will transpire if #1 is not achieved soon.
3.- The one state solution that does not incorporate the Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank. Personally, I think that this is clearly the goal of the Israeli government. For hat reason they never really negotiate, but rather just drag things out for years. Years in which the settlements continue to expand ("the number of new structures in the West Bank settlements and outposts increased by 69 percent in 2008, compared to 2007"), years in which more checkpoints are built, more settler only roads cut the West Bank into tiny isolated enclaves.
To achieve this "solution" the Israelis will force a confrontation in the West Bank like what just happened in Gaza, but they will force the Palestinians out. They will kill them or march them into Jordan. The whole world will scream, but by the time anyone actually does anything it will be a fait accompli. Once the Palestinians are gone, they will never get back in. Israel will suffer for a while, but the US will forgive Israel. The US will pay billions to the homeless Palestinians in Israel's name and gradually the world will forget. The Israelis will have to do this before Iran gets a nuke, because they must fear that this is the one thing that they could do that might actually elicit a first strike.
OK, I'm not a mind reader, but I'll bet a month's wages that #3 is the Israeli hard-line plan.
They will never accept #1 and certainly not #2 - gijoeler, on 01/30/2009, -1/+5We need to reshape our policies with regards to Israel, too bad Obama and the entirety of congress are slaves to the whims of AIPAC, ADL, ZOA and CUFI.
- gijoeler, on 01/30/2009, -1/+5I think people are finally starting to disconnect themselves from the matrix.
- aijazbaig1, on 01/30/2009, -1/+1get this out guys..this needs to get out far and wide
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