Saturday, December 17, 2005
The Shame of it All
Recent Colonists from New York. Palestinian Inmates.
The toppling of an entire regime in Iraq was realistic. The overturn of the
apartheid system in South-Africa was realistic. Entire empires crumble --
that is obvious and therefore realistic. But to touch one hair on the head
of Israel's major settlements or of its occupation of Jerusalem, or to bring
up the subject of the Palestinian right of return, even as stated under
international law and resolutions -- well, that's plainly unrealistic. Azmi Bishara
