Sam Bahour is an American-Palestinian who moved back to Palestine to help in the development of his country. He occassionally sends email missives about his life under occupation in al Bireh as he trys to build and open a new shopping mall. Despite his troubles he always maintains a desire for peace and reconsiliation. It is always worth reading what he writes. This is his latest missive.
“When The Hague speaks, the world listens, especially when a threat to international peace is involved. At least this was the case until the International Court of Justice took aim at Israel. At issue was the Israeli government’s building of a separation wall on occupied Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which, in essence, has caged Palestinian communities into ghettos reminiscent of the Jewish ghettos in Europe during World War II. The now infamous separation wall is center stage of an international campaign aimed to end the illegal Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem–all areas occupied by force in 1967 when Israel’s military assumed control, the same way the US entered Iraq and assumed control of everyday life there.”
