Monday, December 20, 2010

Israel Demolishing Talks

By Mel Frykberg

"ISSAWEYA, Occupied East Jerusalem, Dec 20, 2010 (IPS) - More and more Palestinians are paying the price for deadlocked talks over Israel’s continued settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Muhammad Robin Alyyan, 27, from the volatile Issaweya suburb of East Jerusalem, stands next to piles of rubble and twisted metal. This is all that remains of his, and his two brothers’ printing business. It was a business that took ten years of hard work and their combined life savings to build into a profitable enterprise....


These developments have exacerbated the PA’s already tenuous position. It is only by the slimmest of margins that the PA continues to cling to power, backed by massive foreign aid and a ubiquitous security presence which monitors all criticism and political opposition...."

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