Israel + Palestine.

[brianold]

Another big world issue. I thought it deserved it's own space also. Feel free to post thoughts and opinions.

[brianold]

BISHOP TUTU ON PALESTINE

BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, GUARDIAN - I've been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about. . . I have experienced Palestinians pointing to what were their homes, now occupied by Jewish Israelis. . . My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?

Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. . .

We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment...11,00.html

[brianold]

What Can Israel Achieve?
http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=999

The State of Israel was established in 1948. Ever since, there has been continuous violence between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and between Israel and its neighbors. Sometimes, the violence was low-level and even latent. And every once in a while, the violence escalated into open warfare, as now. Whenever full-scale violence broke out, there was an immediate debate about what started it, as though that mattered. We are now in the midst of warfare between Israel and Palestine in Gaza and between Israel and Lebanon. And the world is engaged in its usual futile debate about how to reduce the open state of warfare to low-level violence...

MORE...
http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=999

[brianold]

ELECTRONICLEBANON.NET PSA
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...in+Lebanon

George Galloway on SKY NEWS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...e+Galloway

Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...4384920696

[Nathaniel]

Here's a perspective that doesn't get covered in the media:

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Read especially the origins of the conflict and the Nazi support for the Jewish state....