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To Ben
author: Ted
Firstly, human rights is not a reward for good behavior. I said, when Israel steals Palestinian land,
and kills Palestinians, then it
cannot expect my sympathy when Palestinians react the way they do. As to what
I am doing about the Palestinians killing civilians, I am assisting the Palestinian people in using
non-violent resistance to end the occupation. But if non-violent resistance does not work for them, it
should be no surprise that some will resort to violence. The Palestinian resistance has been far less brutal
than that of the native Americans who resisted the usurpation of thier lands with maximal harm to the white invaders,
yet everyone can seem to understand why they did it.
I didn't mean to imply that yesterday's bombing was a direct response to the fence. But it is part and parcel of resistance
to occupation that has gone on for 36 years. If you don't like the resistance, end the occupation. Give the Palestinians
a state on the 22% of historic Palestine that is the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and support for violent resistance will dissapate.
I have heard this over and over again while in Palestine. The Palestinian people would accept this.
To refuse to do so, to build walls leaving just 42% of the West Bank to the Palestinians, will just cause another social
explosion that will bring more suffering to both peoples. And it wil confirm what I have come to understand, that Israel is motivated by simple greed and more interested in stealing more Palestinian land than its own security.
Build your Apartheid wall, but build it on your own land. That is what Colin Powell suggested. You leave the wall here and continue
building it, and no amount of asking the Palestinians to behave nicely will make a difference.