georgephillip
Diamond Member
"The displacement of 1948, and the post-1967 occupation an occupation that shirks annexation by preferring a formula that includes 'the application of Israeli law in the West Bank and Gaza' though without, of course, granting citizenship and political rights to the occupied are two cases of demographic segregation undertaken on behalf of a Jewish majority...
"The Palestinians, apparently, live beyond the pale of citizenry and political life. They dwell beyond a political system based on a Jewish majority, and this without the benefit of a wall.
"Once this society that lived and still lives under occupation evolved its struggle for national sovereignty and for separation in an independent state comprising Palestinian citizens Israel responded with plans to separate from the Palestinians on its own terms.
"What Israel wants to separate itself from is the largest possible number of Palestinians living on the smallest possible area of land.
"The self-rule plans negotiated with Egypt in January 1980, the Oslo Accords, the Camp David proposals, the unilateral withdrawal schemes by Sharon and Olmert, the Geneva initiative by the Zionist Israeli left, and the separation wall, are merely different manifestations of such thinking."
A Short History of Apartheid
"The Palestinians, apparently, live beyond the pale of citizenry and political life. They dwell beyond a political system based on a Jewish majority, and this without the benefit of a wall.
"Once this society that lived and still lives under occupation evolved its struggle for national sovereignty and for separation in an independent state comprising Palestinian citizens Israel responded with plans to separate from the Palestinians on its own terms.
"What Israel wants to separate itself from is the largest possible number of Palestinians living on the smallest possible area of land.
"The self-rule plans negotiated with Egypt in January 1980, the Oslo Accords, the Camp David proposals, the unilateral withdrawal schemes by Sharon and Olmert, the Geneva initiative by the Zionist Israeli left, and the separation wall, are merely different manifestations of such thinking."
A Short History of Apartheid