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"A few people that hate Israel ?"
What about those Palestinians exposed to measures like these?
In Olmert’s ‘realignment’ plan, Cockburn says, “the ‘separation barrier’ now scheduled to be Israel’s permanent ‘demographic border’ annexes 10 percent of the West Bank, while melding into Israel vast settlements and hundreds of thousands of settlers.”
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“The Palestinians lose their best agricultural land and the water,” he continues. “Israel ’s Greater Jerusalem finishes off any possible viability for a separate Palestinian state. This Palestinian mini-archipelago of cantons is shuttered to the east by Israel ’s security border in the Jordan Valley .”
Cockburn said no matter which Israeli leader was in power, “the roads got built, the water stolen, the olive and fruit trees cut down(a million), the houses knocked over(12,000), the settlements imposed(300), the shameless protestations of good faith issued to the US press(beyond computation).”
“As the new millennium shambled forward, surely it became impossible to believe any Israeli claim to be bargaining, or even to wish to bargain, in good faith,” Cockburn said.
Cockburn said the Israeli government’s plan emerged during the 1980s: “The road system that would bypass Palestinian towns and villages and link the Jewish settlements and military posts; the ever-expanding clusters of illegal settlements; control of the whole region’s water.”
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