Thursday, August 9, 2007

A “viable and contiguous” Palestinian state, pledged by the Bush administration, remains a pipe dream

From UPI's De Borchgrave, here

"... The consensus in Israel today, says Pappe (his book: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine), is for a state comprising 90 percent of Palestine “surrounded by electric fences and visible and invisible walls” with Palestinians given only worthless cantonized scrub lands of little value to the Jewish state. In 2006, Pappe sees that 1.4 million Palestinians live in Israel on 2 percent of the land allotted to them plus another 1 percent for agricultural use with 6 million Jews on most of the rest. “Another 3.9 million live concentrated in Israel’s unwanted portions of the West Bank and concentrated in Gaza that has three times the population density of Manhattan,” notes Pappe. Back from the Middle East last week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said prospects are good for a two-state solution...!"

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