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I have just been listening to the recording on the IPSC website of the meeting in Wynns with Mike and the others.
All the contributions were interesting,
valid - even inspiring.
But nobody talked about the core issue:
Israel's objective.
Israel is not simply a colonial power;
or an apartheid state like South Africa.
Colonial powers occupy foreign countries
to exploit resources and cheap labour.
But that is not the case in Palestine.
The Israeli government does not want
cheap Palestinian labour. It wants a Jewish state, from the River to the Sea.
They began ethnic cleansing in 1948, and they haven't finished yet.
So the reason they attack children is
perfectly logical. It is so that their
parents will emigrate, to bring their children to safety.
The reason for the mindless pointless
intimidation for so-called "security" is to wear people down, to drain
their will to resist, until they just leave.
So it is not simply a question of
persuading the Israeli state to recognise Palestine and treating the Palestinians
equally. That is not going to happen.
Any short-term concessions to
Palestinian statehood are just that: short term, to bide time with the
international community.
So whether we like it or not we are not
just campaigning for the Palestinians. We are attacking the very basis of the
Israeli state.
So we should expect a hard and dirty
fight.
Ilan Pappe describes Palestine as ‘The Biggest
Prison on Earth’, and what Mike said about Israel not letting us in to see it
is probably true.
So we should be thinking very carefully
about strategy.
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