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> By Jonathan Cook - 17 Nov 2010 > > *Palestinians will be the losers – again* > > clip - > > <http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-11-17/jonathan-cook-obama%E2%80%99s-bribe/> > > Watching the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians drag on year > after year without conclusion, it is easy to overlook the enormous changes > that have taken place on the ground since the Oslo Accords were signed 17 > years ago. > > Each has undermined the Palestinians’ primary goal of achieving viable > statehood, whether it is the near-trebling of Jewish settlers on Palestinian > land to the current numbers of half a million, Israel’s increasing > stranglehold on East Jerusalem, the wall that has effectively annexed large > slices of the West Bank to Israel, or the splitting of the Palestinian > national movement into rival camps following Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza > in 2005. > > Another setback of similar magnitude may be unfolding as Barack Obama > dangles a lavish package of incentives in the face of Benjamin Netanyahu in > an attempt to lure the Israeli prime minister into renewing a three-month, > partial freeze on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. > full -- > <http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-11-17/jonathan-cook-obama%E2%80%99s-bribe/> > > http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-11-17/jonathan-cook-obama%E2%80%99s-bribe/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
