From: The Future of Freedom Foundation
Sheldon Richman
The Obama administration’s hypocritical vow to block full UN membership
for Palestine shames America. Only a hypocrite could proclaim support
for the Arab Spring while opposing this step toward realizing the
Palestinian aspiration to be free from the 44-year-old Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and subjugation of Gaza.
Sheldon Richman
The Obama administration’s hypocritical vow to block full UN membership
for Palestine shames America. Only a hypocrite could proclaim support
for the Arab Spring while opposing this step toward realizing the
Palestinian aspiration to be free from the 44-year-old Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and subjugation of Gaza.
The Palestinians have been under brutal and degrading occupation since
the 1967 Six-Day War, which they did not start. Their daily lives, when
not punctuated by shootings, beatings, and bulldozing of homes and olive
groves, are scarred by routine humiliation: military checkpoints, road
blocks, arbitrary searches, unpredictable delays, and an inhumanely
disruptive “security” wall. No one should have to live like that, yet
two generations of Palestinians have been subjected to this cruelty.
Some Palestinians, mostly in Gaza, have responded with attacks on
Israeli civilians. However comprehensible, it is nonetheless vicious,
criminal action.
