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Why do many of the commentators refer to "46 years"?
The 1967 war is a diversion from the core issue. The occupation began in 1948 (really late '47), and nothing will be resolved if we pretend otherwise. The Partition Resolution was a sham (blatantly contrary to the UN Charter, and would never have survived a court review, which we blocked). The Green Line was NEVER a gift to Israel of the land between it and the Partition; it was ONLY a cease-fire line. And, finally, Israel never abided by the terms of the Partition Resolution which de facto created it, even after promising to in order to gain admittance to the UN.
"DICKERSON3870" commented that the “formidable police and soldiers” of the Palestinian Authority are considered by some Palestinians to be collaborators with the Israel in its occupation.
Just to say I completely agree. The PA serves only at the pleasure of Israel and the US, and many of its soldiers were trained by the CIA. I hope I did not give any impression to the contrary.
To me, the interesting aspect will be whether the "helicopter on the roof" will carry away with it the decades of misinformation and mythology which have empowered US empowerment, or whether --- as was the case with Vietnam --- the US never admits that it was the bad guy. How will "we" explain cutting (or even narrowing) the umbilical cord to our neo-colonial surrogate? Indeed if our standard line about Israel were true, we've been getting a good deal all these years, a mere some-odd billion a year for stability and a shining beacon of enlightenment furthering our own security.
Will the "helicopter on the roof" leave behind the "elephant in the room" for all to see?
Thanks---but as I noted on pabelmont's posting, the issue itself is irrelevant. There is no Israeli municipal or local law in East Jerusalem for international law to have to trump. Israel's presence there is illegitimate, period.
Hello Pabelmont, thank you for the comment.
Actually it's not a matter of international law trumping local law. East Jerusalem does not lie in Israel, so there is no Israeli local or municipal law there to begin with---only a military occupation running the show by force. This is especially important to remember when Israel uses the "permit" issue as legal cover for ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem. One not need even expose the scam of the permits themselves, since Israel has no jurisdiction there anyway---no more than than Saddam Hussein had in Kuwait City.
In 1963, Congress briefly investigated the issue of Israeli "interests" [aka foreign agents] not registering as such, and being tax-exempt. A good summary and commentary is in Moshe Menuhin's classic "Decadence of Judaism in Our Time."
Good piece, Philip!
Anan, well, no, the $3b figure is just the outright above-board donation. The true figure is more than twice that.
As for the US "influencing" Israel, why do you invoke that word? No one's talking about our "influencing" Israel.
Agree -- that was my reaction as well -- it'll backfire.
To those (e.g., the US gov!) who try to deflate the greater issues raised with the diversion that every country has the right to its own entry policies, it must continually be stated that Israel is not just deciding who will enter Israel (and abusing them based on ethnicity) -- it is deciding who will enter other people's land as well. Israel controls all access to Palestine. An accurate analogy would be if Saddam Hussein, after claiming to have annexed Kuwait, decided who may enter Kuwait, terrorized and humiliated the "wrong" people attempting to enter (whether US citizens or other), and the US response was well, shucks, wadaya gonna do...
Thank you, Najwa Doughman and Sasha Al-Sarabi, for this important record of what happened to you.
Thank you for the link to the Kairos report.
A shame 60 Minutes perpetuates the myth about the Wall having anything to do with stopping terrorism (and a few other quibbles...), but nonetheless for the US mass media to air this at all, we have to be grateful!
Just to clarify the issue raised by 'Mayhem', the PNO performed in Haifa in January 2011. I was not involved with the orchestra then.
The PNO did not go to Israel (or even East Jerusalem, which is not in Israel) this year. None of the concert series covered in my commentary (PNO, children's, and youth orchestras) involved entering Israel.