The Promised Land

For many years, when I lived in the Boston area, I was an activist for Palestinian rights. I haven ' t been involved in that work for some years now, and I don ' t really have the time or bandwidth to invest in it these days. But the recent confrontation -- sparked by efforts by the Israeli government to evict Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem -- does compel me to bring it up. Here in the U.S., the corporate media presents an entirely one-sided and distorted story, about an imperiled Israel beleaguered by irrationally hateful terrorists, motivated solely by bigotry. Quite the contrary, it is the project of the Israel government to drive the Palestinians from the last of their land, and they use terrorism as a principal means. Yes, it is legitimate to label Hamas a terrorist organization: they do attack innocent civilians. But so do many Israeli extremists, and the Palestinians suffer vastly more civilian casualties than do the Jewish Israelis. Note that there are many Israeli Arab citizens, so the distinction is not actually one of nationality.Anyway, as I say I don ' t have the bandwidth to argue about this right now, soI ' ll outsource to David Shulman. Please read the whole thing, I ' ll just pull a couple of quotes to get the basic idea across.As several astute commentators have suggested in the last weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu ’s grand strategic plan, shared, implicitly, with sections of the Israeli right, was to keep Hamas alive as a constant threat to Israel. ...
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