RE Diana Buttu's excellent op-ed: The
U.A.E.-Israel Flight Is Nothing to Celebrate, It’s a slap in
the face of Palestinians, who can no longer count on Arab states
for political support.
published September 8, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opinion/uae-israel-palestinians.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR0nL-feONpJZT0lzSACwFLbigk95qR2eejnGJ9uPanpHO8mez6__mm3Oy8
Dear
Editor,
Oslo
Accords were so long ago, too long ago. 1993. A child
born then has already fully grown up. But where is the
promised Palestine, as in the fully sovereign and free nation
state that was supposed to be born to live side by side in
peace with Israel ?!
Inch by inch
that Palestine is being crushed by Israeli "settlements",
monstrous land grabbing walls, home demolition policies, and
Israel's state funded religious extremists...
Israel clearly wants the land but not the native non-Jewish
people of that land. How is it that America's elected
leaders, and now the UAE, enthusiastically endorse and
empower a Jews-preferred Israel that refuses to respect the
Palestinians' basic human rights, including but not limited to
the refugees right of return?
For decades
now, I have watched as many have tried all they can to help
create a two state solution to end the Israel/Palestine
conflict once and for all. Diana Buttu
is absolutely right to say "Rather than
continuing to press for a two-state solution, the P.L.O.
should instead press for equal rights.", and I thank her
from the bottom of my heart for speaking truth to power.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden
Annab
Photo
by Photo Ra'id Mukdi, 9 Sept. 2020 of Palestinian children (of Ras
al-Tin, east of Ramallah) during class before by Israeli forces
confiscated tin panels from the school’s roof, 30 chairs and 12
classroom tables. One example of many of how Israel daily harasses and
impoverishes Palestinians. https://www.btselem.org/facing_expulsion_blog?nid=213075
