Daily 5th October
Dear Editor, ,
Sheree Roth (letters Daily, 5th October 2006) implies that Israel deserves unconditional support to compensate Jews who suffered from the Holocaust. I would like to remind Roth it was the Germans who persecuted the Jews not the Palestinians. Perhaps Roth is unaware that the Israeli military occupation is in complete violation of international law and contrary to scores of United Nations resolutions. A staggering 80 percent of the land once owned by Palestinians has been illegally expropriated. 93 per cent of Israel’s land can only be leased or owned by Jews, a privilege denied non-Jews.
According to Phyllis Bennis, head of the Middle East Project at the Institute of Policy Studies, Israel is essentially an apartheid government where Jews are protected and enjoy privileges denied the indigenous inhabitants, closely paralleling the former white South African system of government. Anybody who resists the iron boots of repression and occupation is denounced as a ‘terrorist’. Israel operates with complete immunity with targeted assassinations and arbitrary arrests. Currently, over 8,000 men, women and children are languishing in prisons, denied due process. Unless, the international community relaxes the crippling economic sanctions imposed on the Palestinians and Israel releases confiscated Palestinian funds, an appalling humanitarian catastrophe will result.
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