[Marxism] Exhausted Palestinians

["Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Palestinian morale is at its lowest ebb and the impotent Palestinian
Authority is debating whether to dissolve itself, according to Harvey
Morris in today’s Financial Times – all in keeping with the Sharon
government’s game plan.

Palestinian academics and politicians told Morris that, 10 years after
its founding, the PA had reached a “dead end” – unable to garner
effective international support for a viable independent state, or,
alternatively, to lead a popular resistance movement to the Israeli
occupation, the latter task having fallen to the Islamist parties.

As Morris notes, the beleaguered Palestinians are at a crossroads:
either capitulate to the surrender terms on offer from the Sharon
government, or abandon the two-state solution in favour of an
“anti-apartheid” struggle for democratic and human rights in a single
binational state of Hebrew- and Arabic-speakers.

In an accompanying sidebar, however, Morris reports how Israel intends
to keep the Palestinians outside as a cheap labour pool while annexing
part of occupied territory containing the settlements through a series
of bypass tunnels and bridges augmenting the border wall.

Financial Times (sub only) article reproduced on
www.supportingfacts.com.

Sorry for any cross posting.


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