The pseudonymous "Seven" regularly sends me news tips from California, so I asked her what's on her mind, and she sent along the following note. Seven is a Palestinian-American woman who does not want her real name used lest she have trouble visiting her relatives in Palestine.
So much in the news today all over the world but two things stand out from today as particularly obscene and cartoonish: 1)
Badil, the Palestinian refugees' rights organization, is accusing Fatah of capitulating to American/Israeli demands by agreeing to remove all references to Palestinians from the "outcome document" in Durban next week. And 2) The Collaborator in Chief''s son gave an interview yesterday in which he said that: a majority of Palestinians,"
including himself, "collaborate with Israel."
By the way, the person who wrote that is also a
collaborator and you can read pretty succinct descriptions of him here and here.
I envisioned this whole cathartic post about Fatah and they're collaborating ways,
but that's just so daunting because they give me so much material to
work with and I am really tired. Do I mention the obvious, like their
support for the slaughter in Gaza? Or do I talk about how they fooled the Palestinians in the West Bank
and told them that their living conditions would improve if they turned
their weapons in and gave up on resisting the occupation? They didn't
get anything in return for doing that, in fact they're getting their
land in the West Bank stolen at a faster rate, the checkpoints are
still there, the settlers are multiplying, the Israelis are still
invading towns and villages in the West Bank everyday and
arresting men, women and children and throwing them in prisons for
months or years at a time without ever charging them. 53 men, women and
children were arrested in the last seven days. Some people did get
jobs, they're the new "security apparatus" and they go out and arrest
people on behalf of Israel, daily. The people in Gaza are starving,
they are wounded, they are traumatized, the children there "want to die" but the West Bank is not really Disneyland. By the way, this is the man the U.S. is trying to pawn off on Palestinians as the next legitimate leader. Remove one Saddam, insert another.
Oh and did you read about the Bush torture memos today? Obama already let anyone involved in state sponsored terrorism off the hook. They're higher up on the ladder than those soldiers that go to jail for raping Iraqi girls and executing restrained detainees, so no jail time for them.
