RAMZY BAROUD, author of the recently released book “Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion April 2002,” said today: “In the last two months, there has been an alarming escalation of violence by the Israeli government. There's been a far greater systematic campaign to demolish Palestinian homes.... There are people in the Israeli cabinet, including Binjamin Netanyahu, who have advocated the 'transfer' - the ethnic cleansing - of Palestinians to take advantage of global instability, so many are concerned that the Israeli government is going to use an invasion of Iraq as a pretext to carry out ethnic cleansing again. In the past when Israel has done this ... Israel has not been held to account by the international community. It has violated nearly 70 Security Council resolutions [in total], so there's the expectation that it could certainly get away with another mass expulsion of Palestinians.”
RAMZY BAROUD,editor@palestinechronicle.com,
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