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Every one knows that Israel is a country full of connivers who have friends who own the Mass Media, the New York Times is no exception...
The truth be known about a brutal Israeli occupation where even trees are an enemy!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/the-two-state-delusion-by-padraig-omalley.html?_r=0
Padraig O’Malley’s “The Two-State Delusion” is an impressive and frustrating book. It’s impressive because O’Malley, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston who has written extensively on South Africa and Northern Ireland, has done a tremendous amount of research about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He’s not only delved deeply into its literature; he’s also interviewed dozens of participants on both sides. The result is a book so packed with information that it will reward even the reader so dedicated that she consumes the Israel-Palestine stories buried on Page A17 of The Times.
...O’Malley is not only knowledgeable; he’s also honest. He vividly captures the brutality of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. According to pro-Palestinian activists, Israel has cut down more than 800,000 Palestinian olive trees since 1967, which, O’Malley observes, is “the equivalent of razing all of the 24,000 trees in New York City’s Central Park 33 times.” And according to the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, he tells us, 90 percent of Palestinian complaints against Israelis in the West Bank never result in an indictment, and in the rare circumstances “when convictions are made, Israeli citizens involved in such violent acts are handed light sentences...”
The truth be known about a brutal Israeli occupation where even trees are an enemy!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/the-two-state-delusion-by-padraig-omalley.html?_r=0
Padraig O’Malley’s “The Two-State Delusion” is an impressive and frustrating book. It’s impressive because O’Malley, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston who has written extensively on South Africa and Northern Ireland, has done a tremendous amount of research about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He’s not only delved deeply into its literature; he’s also interviewed dozens of participants on both sides. The result is a book so packed with information that it will reward even the reader so dedicated that she consumes the Israel-Palestine stories buried on Page A17 of The Times.
...O’Malley is not only knowledgeable; he’s also honest. He vividly captures the brutality of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. According to pro-Palestinian activists, Israel has cut down more than 800,000 Palestinian olive trees since 1967, which, O’Malley observes, is “the equivalent of razing all of the 24,000 trees in New York City’s Central Park 33 times.” And according to the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, he tells us, 90 percent of Palestinian complaints against Israelis in the West Bank never result in an indictment, and in the rare circumstances “when convictions are made, Israeli citizens involved in such violent acts are handed light sentences...”