Friday, September 7, 2012

My letter to the NYTimes RE The Migron Settlement Myth by Shmuel Rosner


RE:  The Migron Settlement Myth by Shmuel Rosner
http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/n-evacuating-migron-israels-leaders-were-motivated-by-politics/?ref=global

Dear Editor,

Many of the Israeli settlers removed from Gaza ended up in the West Bank, shifting as the Migron settlers just did from one settlement project to another amid much fuss and publicity all about "removing" settlers.  Meanwhile the UN reports that "tougher Israeli policies and settlement expansion were pushing the occupied territories and Gaza deeper into poverty." But Israel is not the only factor impoverishing Palestinians for the report points out that Palestinian poverty is also being. exasperated by a sharp drop in international aid. 

Israel's one-staters who seek to erase Palestine are assisted by Islamists and misguided 'pro-Palestine' activists who are convinced Israel will be erased.  Both sets of one-staters have their admirers and echo chambers convincing them that they are right and that one state victory is inevitable.... and step by step both sets of one-staters further normalize the continued disenfranchisement and destruction of the people of Palestine in multiple ways.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

NOTES
Israel's Ongoing Policy of Destroying Homes & Displacing Palestinians

The Truth is Stranger than Fiction in Palestine

Breaking the Silence: More than 30 former Israeli soldiers have disclosed their experiences of the treatment of Palestinian children during military operations and arrests, pointing to a pattern of abuse.

Ending the Israel-Palestine conflict: "It is the view of the United Nations that there is a responsibility not only on the parties themselves but on all member states to consider their action and their language in light of the goal,"


We Palestinian are locked in a fierce struggle for our independence....to make the matter straight and simple this is not a clash of religions...

Violent attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property, mosques and farmland had increased by 150% over the past year.

"If you have to modify it, it isn't really a democracy."




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