Security wall will destroy Mid East peace process

[sushi]

You can read an interesting interview with Thomas Friedmann

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s983032.htm

First on the war in Iraq:
"What's been most disappointing to me is the way Bush's reach has exceeded his grasp."

On the I/P conflict:
"We've told the truth to the Palestinians, we won't tell the truth to the Israelis."

"Well, I think this wall could be the first wall that instead of producing two states produces one....

Secondly, when you build a wall and you have Jews on both sides of the wall, Israeli citizens on the one side, Israeli settler citizens on the other, what it means is that you don't just have a wall, you have a wall and then you have a set of mini walls on the other side to protect the settlers over there....what you're actually doing is building cages for Palestinians...."

He thinks over time what the wall will produce is a move among Palestinians to want a 1-state solution, one man, one vote.

[papau]

1. The PA has never stopped wanting one arab dominated state

the wall will not change that.

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[sushi]

5. Hanan Ashrawi

said in Sydney, where she is to receive a peace prize, that "there was indeed a simple solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, namely the much-touted two-state system with Jerusalem as a shared capital."

[DinahMoeHum]

2. A new Berlin Wall !! How communist can you get?

n/t

:evilfrown:

[ForestsBeatBushes]

4. From my post earlier today on "Banality and Bad English":

"... all it takes is for decision-makers to be informed by media that tell half-truths or issue indictments against Israel, for those in power to form a negative impression. Thus, in an interview with Haaretz two weeks ago, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt referred to the separation fence as a "wall," as the Palestinians refer to it. When it was pointed out that only 5 percent of the fence is indeed a concrete wall, he said, "I know, I know, but this is what the national media is making of it - that's always like that, the simplification of the situation."