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February 02, 2009
J Street wants action
The new pro-Israel, pro-sanity lobbying group and political action committee J Street has a handy form on their website for you to send a message of support to 60 Minutes' Bob Simon for his recent piece covering, in their words, "the threat Israeli settlements pose to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Needless to say, I made good use of the form.
Simon summed up the three primary choices Israel will have in ten years when population models say that Arabs will outnumber Jews in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.
- Try ethnic cleansing
- Give Palestinians the vote
- Apartheid
I don't see any other choices either. But the more onerous choices haven't been put off at all. Apartheid is a reality right now in the West Bank, and policies amounting to ethnic cleansing are also in place and being enforced, as Dr. Barghouti explains in Simon's piece.
Note the heavily-armed IDF soldiers standing at the top of the stairs holding a Palestinian banker and his family hostage in their own home in this clip covering the first half of Simon's piece:
After the jump is the second of his piece and a link to the transcript of the entire piece.
Posted by Kevin at February 2, 2009 08:47 PM
