Ramzy Baroud: Trying Times for Palestinians

Article image Palestinians are giving Israel the time and pretense to carry out Sharon’s racist vision to the last letter.
The political and ideological division separating Palestinian society in the Occupied Territories has metamorphosed into a formidable chasm, despite the urgent need to consolidate Palestinian national unity in this current crisis.

And a time of crisis it is. Never since the creation of the Israeli state, and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of nearly one million Palestinians in 1947-48, has an Israeli government been as determined to settle its account with the Palestinians as that of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in so vile and careless a way.
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