No one notices Gaza as long as the Palestinians' daily death toll remains in the single digits
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Thursday December 07, 2006 01:42
by Danny Kaplan - Gush Shalom
We leave the Palestinians only the job of dying more dramatically to get any attention at all.
"Israel has never been such an international pariah in all its years."
"The right of a population to resist occupation is enshrined in the UN Charter. Resistance to occupation becomes illegitimate only if and when the occupier is recognized as the legitimate sovereign. Of course, the international community has not admitted openly that Israel is sovereign in all of Mandate Palestine, because that would wreck the already-shaky collective pretence that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are territories from which Israel can be expected to withdraw someday. But denying Palestinians the right to resist occupation demonstrates that Israel's occupation itself has been tacitly redefined". (See Virginia Tilley's raging, powerfull "J'accusse" on link)