Netanyahu's speech was peppered with the word 'peace' this last Sunday June 14th, 2009. But 'peace' in reality means 'pacification'. De facto entrenched colonization is inherent to that word. Emancipation for the Palestinians is in vain and a remote propect. Subjugation and repression has become a masterful Israeli skill and feeds a large security and high tech industry. Restitution of that 22 % of their remaining homeland will be a remote prospect if Israel is allowed to continue with its 'ways'.
A sheer distortion in his speech saying that Israel 'withdrew' from the Gaza Strip and all it got in return were 'suicide bombers' and 'thousands of missiles'. Palestinians were disturbingly aware what lay behind that policy of 'withdrawal'. It was part of a devious game at isolating them not only from the rest of the world but from the rest of the Occupied Territories. It was to proceed with the really important agenda of further entrenchment in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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 depravation, 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, shrunken 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.
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