The Predatory War on Palestine

Hope for Palestinian emancipation, restitution and recovery of the Occupied Territories is in vain. The Peace Process has been killed off many times by the Israelis. They have never sought peace. It would be a major obstacle to expansionism. We have seen it before over decades. It has been at the heart of the many wars in the Middle East. They are in a vice literally. Between the anvil and the hammer! The Israeli colonization process is dragging down the Palestinians to even deeper levels of straightened circumstances and dire socio-economic depravtion, all in the vein of heaping intolerable, unviable and deteriorating living conditions in order to drive out the Palestinians in dribs and drabs. Any Palestinian homeland, or an Archipelago of townships, cantons, shruken ghettos, walled up towns and villages, mega territorial prisons, and bits and pieces of remaining Palestinian territories is the frightening outcome for them and all that it entails in more suffocating and strangulating siege. Bit by bit, in no uncertain terms, the Israeli State and its organs are in unison and should-to-shoulder that every effort is expended in furthering tactics and methods of gradual dispossession, displacement and unbearable pressures.

Just to cite one example: an incident, little reported, overlooked as insignificant and hardly likely to elicit media glare was the final and permanent closure of the only gate through which tens of thousands of East Jerusalemite Palestinians would have to pass through to reach inside the core part of East Jerusalem. By this means, some 70,000 Palestinians of the City will actually, through time, be excluded entirely from the central hub of their socio-economic existence on which they depend on for everything – livelihoods, social services, religious places of worship, friends and family. Once again, through this one means, greater hardship and suffering is engendered, through colonialist engineering, to ethncally cleanse by sly and surruptitious methods hardly likely to attract unwelcome attention from the International Media.