The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has influence on US policy out of all proportion to the number of Americans it represents. When a small group like this has disproportionate power, it hurts everyone—from Palestinians and Iranians to Israelis and American Jews.
Israel detained 1,266 Palestinian children in 2014 (Image: courtesy Veterans News Now)
The PLO must clearly and effectively work alongside Palestinian and international civil society to isolate Israel until it upholds international law. Until that day, Israel has no right to be a respected member of the community of nations.
Is this not the ultimate betrayal?
My compatriots, Mr. Abbas has just withdrawn the dagger from deep in the heart of Palestine and placed it firmly unsheathed and ready to cross the jugular. Please don’t allow him to administer the final and fatal cut to our hopes and aspirations.
The taste of betrayal is most bitter because it never comes from your enemies.
Treason: The betraying of one’s country… Oxford English Dictionary
Image: United Nations headquarters in New York, the United States, Feb. 18, 2011. The United States, a permanent Security Council member, on Friday vetoed a UN draft resolution that condemned continued Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and demanded Israel ” immediately and completely cease” all such activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)
…while the international community gives Israel all the elbow-room it needs to crush Gaza and its nuisance inhabitants permanently
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) Executive Committee member Dr.
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Appeasement dooms Palestinians to everlasting misery
by Stuart Littlewood
UN’s precious gift empowering legal action is squandered while Israel, with US/UK/EU acquiescence, continues to seize land and resources with impunity
Later this month Palestinians will be celebrating an important anniversary, namely the decision by the UN General Assembly a year ago to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state.
