" ... It is comical to hear US Secretary of State John Kerry ask for both Israel and the PA to make “reasonable compromises.” To put it bluntly, it has actually been the Palestinians which have made the real compromises and then, on top of it, have been the ones that have been forced by both the US government and Israel into gradually making more and more concessions. In addition to the recognition of the approximate 80% of Palestine that is demarcated within Israel’s 1967 borders by Palestinian officials, about 60% or more of the West Bank’s territorial space is occupied by Israeli settlements/colonies. The Israeli Hafrada (Separation) Wall or Apartheid Wall has cut off East Jerusalem and the most economically important lands of the West Bank off from their Palestinian inhabitants and owners. Palestinians are not even allowed to manage their own resources and their fresh water is stolen on a daily basis by the Israelis. Notwithstanding all this, the corrupt Palestinian negotiators, which have no popular or legal mandate to represent the Palestinian people, have been willing to recognize and keep the bulk of the Israeli settlements/colonies in the West Bank (on the best land) and to forfeit the legal rights provided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the Palestinian people to return to their occupied homes ... "
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:34:33 +0000
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