Quote of the day:
“Israeli voters taking back their country from those bent on forever persecuting Palestinians is the final hope for Israel to save itself from its own ill-advised, three-decade policy of occupation.”
“The fact remains that there exists only one policy that Israel, to date, has refused to even attempt to employ: actually ending the occupation. This action has the best chance of relieving Israel of the prisoners ball and chain that it has been dragging around for the last fifty-five years.”
As many Palestinians are anxiously waiting for the US to gallop across the Atlantic on a white horse to solve our woes, I prefer to appeal to my Israeli neighbors to wake up and smell the occupation, for their sake and for ours.”
Read Sam Bahour’s full article here.
Putting aside morality, the key criterion for measuring Sharon is the success or failure of his policies. Israelis have never been so insecure, the economy hasn’t been so fragile since the early ’50s, and Israel’s international standing is at an all time low. Bahour’s urgent appeal to his Israeli neighbors is a practical one, not a moral one: End the occupation now, before it ends Israel.