Monday, October 15, 2007

Israel/Palestine

"Every time I visit, the situation seems to have worsened...This time, I was very struck by the sense of hopelessness among the Palestinian people."

Mr Dugard attributed this to "the crushing effect of human rights violations", and in particular Israeli restrictions on Palestinians' freedom of movement.
-- from UN envoy attacks Mid-East Quartet (BBC).

See also the letter 'Failure Risks Devastating Consequences' from Zbigniew Brzezinski et al.

P.S. 5pm: Seth Freedman writes that "too many [young] Israelis have just stopped caring".

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