The roadblocks seem intended to ratchet up daily misery. Maybe even more Palestinians will simply pack up and flee. The goal: to transform the West Bank (in the words of the old Zionist canard) into � ���"a land without people for a people without land.� �� �
One way I� �� � ve come to visualize the Occupation is to imagine the indigenous Onondaga Nation here in Onondaga County, a Nation that white settlers long ago reduced to a fraction of its former territory. But to make the situations more comparable, suppose a 25-foot wall separated the Onondagas from the surrounding white-controlled county. Imagine that the Onondagas risked being shot from sniper towers or detained for months without trial if they somehow passed thru the wall without a permit. Imagine further that within the Onondaga Nation there were numerous militarized roadblocks cutting Onondagas off from their neighbors or their crops. Such a bizarre scenario would be a microcosm of the occupied West Bank.
During Ed� �� � s first two weeks in Israel/Palestine he traveled with a Christian Peacemaker Teams (www.cpt.org) delegation. The dozen delegates met with Jewish, Christian and Islamic peace and justice activists in Jerusalem and in the West Bank (Bethlehem, Hebron, At-Tuwani). Then for two more weeks Ed toured Israel. The delegation did not visit Gaza still blockaded by the Israeli military.
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