On a side note, at a panel discussion by Palestinian students of various backgrounds on Monday, a young woman from Nablus commented that, in her conversations, she has found that the Palestinians of '48 (the "State of Israel," within the Green Line) are now more patriotic (towards Palestine, she clarified!) than their counterparts in the West Bank. - Joe
--------------------------- Jonathan Cook: Israeli tactics are 'uniting' Palestinians "'He [Benjamin Netanyahu] wants to reopen the 1948 file,' Dr Ghanem said, referring to the war that established Israel by expelling and dispossessing 80 per cent of the Palestinian people. 'He is provoking the Palestinian national movement to reassess the accepted two-state model for ending the conflict.' "As fewer and fewer Palestinians clung to the belief that Israel would ever agree to partition the territory, the physical and ideological barriers between the Palestinian sub-groups were starting to crumble, he said. "The separate struggles of the Palestinians - for civil rights among Israel's Palestinian minority; for national liberation by those in the occupied territories; and for the right of return among the diaspora - were being superseded by 'a common fight against the reality of an ethnic apartheid'". http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/10/palestinians-poised-to-take-centre-stage --------------------------- Seumas Milne: The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage "The focus of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle has shifted over the last 40 years from Jordan to Lebanon to the occupied territories. With the two-state solution close to collapse, it may be that the Palestinians of Israel are at last about to move centre stage. If so, the conflict that more than any other has taken on a global dimension will have finally come full circle." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/10/palestinians-poised-to-take-centre-stage -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
