Coninuing yesterday’s discussion of ethnic cleansing, Kristen Ess gives more details on how it is done. Today Arik Sharon said how concerned he is with the well being of the Palestinian people as he builds the apartheid wall. I suggest he read this article.
“Palestinian commerce remains at a virtual standstill with checkpoints and closures ensuring there is little ability to create Palestinian goods, or to work for the money necessary to rebuild destroyed factories, manufacturing centers, or shops. It reinforces one of the goals of occupationto create such a dependency on Israeli goods and work, that whether or not the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) stays inside the West Bank and Gaza, the viability of a Palestinian state becomes ever more tenuous. Many Palestinian stores are stocked largely with Israeli goods. Many Israeli incursions include targeting shops, agricultural production and factories. This, the Israeli government blames on security. A man in Gaza City, surveying his destroyed printing press shop, said, If we make soap they say were making bombs.”