According to the Israeli organisation Peace Now, while “talking peace” for the last nine months, Israel issued permits to build 14,000 new “Jewish only” homes in the occupied land violating article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention
After 66 years of brutal occupation “peace talks without applying the principles of International Law are an exercise in delusion”
In 1988 Yasser Arafat declared independence for Palestine based upon the notion of two states living in peace in historic Palestine. The border between those two states was to be set roughly at the armistice line established at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Palestinian state’s capital was to be located in East Jerusalem.
Throw the Bums Out
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham
by Philip Giraldi - Antiwar.com
