- Israel allots
85% of the water resources in the occupied territories for Jews and
the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories.
For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about 500 settlers,
while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?
- More than 80%
of Palestinians killed are civilians who had nothing to do with terrorism
- There are no
moe than 6,000 Israeli settlers in Gaza, surrounded by 1,000,000 Palestinians,
and yet, 25% of Gazan land is set aside for the settlers
- Hebron is kept
under constant "curfew" -- i.e., Palestinians are physically
confined to their homes 23 out of 24 hours -- simply so that Israel
can guarantee the security of 450 settlers living among 120,000 Palestinians
- At his most "generous",
Ehud Barak offered a Palestinian state composed of 4 disconnected
territories, with the proviso that the Palestinian state retain in
its midst hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens, and that the
settlements where those citizens were to live would be guarded by
the Israeli army, with the territory of the army bases being Israeli
sovereign territory
- Only two nations
in the world oppose the International Treaty on Terrorism: The United
States and Israel
- Israel allows
anyone who is Jewish to "return" to Israel, even if they,
and all of their ancestors going back hundreds or thousand sof years,
had never been in Israel, and yet denies Palestinians with valid land
deeds to return to their their home towns, their villages, their houses
- Israel has a
stated policy of ensuring that its population must retain a Jewish
majority: how can Israel be a democracy and yet pursue a race-based
policy?
- Israel has been
"cracking down" against terrorism for three decades now, and yet to
this day suicide bombings continue to take place -- why does Israel
continue following a policy that is patently a failure?
- If Israel were
serious about a long-lasting peace with the Palestinians, then why
did it double the size of its settlments in the occupied territories
between 1993 and 2000?
- If Palestinians
were only intent on destroying Israel, then why did attacks against
Israelis taper off to nothing when Barak seemed to be making progress
towards peace?
- If Israel really
wants Arafat to reign in militants, as it says it does, then why does
it make it both politically and physically impossible for him to do
so by humiliating him, dennouncing him as a criminal, and physically
dismantling his security aparatus and the infrastructure of his authority?
- If Israel were
really interested in ensuring the security of its citizens, then why
does it carry out assassinations, knowing full well that such assassinations
will only trigger another wave of suicide bombings and escalate the
cycle of violence?
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