The January/February 2009 edition of Foreign Policy magazine has an article (not yet on the World Wide Web) which describes the Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as the most intractable problem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nearly 300,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and another 187,000 live in Israel-annexed East Jerusalem.
As the news is filled with the Israeli violence on the people living in Gaza I recognize again that I have no solution to the conflict. All the solutions that I can think of would require people to act in ways that they seem unwilling to act.
I would note however that the horrors are continuing much worse in a broad swath of Africa than in Gaza and the news media for the mass market in the United States continue largely to ignore them.
Friday, January 02, 2009
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