All the violence in the area of Palestine, is a direct result of what Zionists did in 1948 and what the Israeli's have been doing since 1967.
Word to Israel, you don't want rocks, end the occupation. You don't want rockets, end the blockade. Nothing will stop until you end the illegal and immoral occupation and blockade of Palestinian land. You are 100% responsible for all the violence.
Nothing will end, I repeat, nothing will end, I'll say it again, nothing will end, until you end the occupation and blockade and get those psycho-insurgent-white trash-brain dead settlers, off Palestinian land and back to Israel.
ColorLines: What do you see as the root cause of the current Palestinian uprising?
Phyllis Bennis: What's going on right now can be summed up in one word: occupation. Contrary to the U.S. media's portrayal, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is at the root of what the media at best identify only as a "disproportionate" use of violence by the Israelis on the West Bank and Gaza.
But the real issue is the Israeli military occupation of Palestine--not only that it is inherently violent and a violation of international law and contrary to United Nations resolutions. Even if Israel used only proportionate violence, it would still be absolutely illegal, because the occupation of Palestinian land is illegal.
CL: And why is there an occupation?
PB: Zionist occupation of Palestine was at first meager, amounting to about 10 percent of the population by 1900. By 1947, Jews were still only about 30 percent of the population of Mandate Palestine and owned only six percent of the land, but the UN Partition Resolution that year still assigned 55 percent of the land to a new Jewish state. However, by means of the 1947-48 war, Israel took over even greater expanses of land and forcibly expelled about 750,000 Palestinians. This travesty was the basis for the official founding of the Israeli state in 1948.
Phyllis Bennis: What's going on right now can be summed up in one word: occupation. Contrary to the U.S. media's portrayal, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is at the root of what the media at best identify only as a "disproportionate" use of violence by the Israelis on the West Bank and Gaza.
But the real issue is the Israeli military occupation of Palestine--not only that it is inherently violent and a violation of international law and contrary to United Nations resolutions. Even if Israel used only proportionate violence, it would still be absolutely illegal, because the occupation of Palestinian land is illegal.
CL: And why is there an occupation?
PB: Zionist occupation of Palestine was at first meager, amounting to about 10 percent of the population by 1900. By 1947, Jews were still only about 30 percent of the population of Mandate Palestine and owned only six percent of the land, but the UN Partition Resolution that year still assigned 55 percent of the land to a new Jewish state. However, by means of the 1947-48 war, Israel took over even greater expanses of land and forcibly expelled about 750,000 Palestinians. This travesty was the basis for the official founding of the Israeli state in 1948.
Word to Israel, you don't want rocks, end the occupation. You don't want rockets, end the blockade. Nothing will stop until you end the illegal and immoral occupation and blockade of Palestinian land. You are 100% responsible for all the violence.
Nothing will end, I repeat, nothing will end, I'll say it again, nothing will end, until you end the occupation and blockade and get those psycho-insurgent-white trash-brain dead settlers, off Palestinian land and back to Israel.
