Monday, December 14, 2009

No freeze on Palestinian suffering


International excitement about the West Bank settlement freeze means little to those facing the sharp end of Israeli military rule

Seth Freedman
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 December 2009

".....For those Palestinians living under military rule, coupled with indiscriminate and incessant settler attacks against them, their children and their flocks, there is no end in sight to the suffering. While the world might have been convinced that the worm is about to turn in the Israeli political arena, a quick glance at the fevered construction still taking place in the settlements, the oppressive military activity against the Palestinian villagers and the overarching penury in which the Palestinians are forced to subsist should give onlookers food for thought about the true situation on the ground.

Freeze or no freeze, the future looks no brighter for the Palestinian locals today than it has during any of the bitter years and decades gone by."

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