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• Title: Convergences (Commentary)
• Author : Arena Journal
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 169 KB

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Israel and Palestine In October the UN General Assembly decided by an overwhelming majority to call on Israel to pull down the wall it is now building across the West Bank and through Jerusalem. The only governments to join the United States in voting against the resolution were Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. The passage of a similar resolution tabled at a meeting of the UNSC had been blocked by an American veto. While constructing its wall (or walls, as they are now turning out to be), Israel has continued its land and air campaign against the West Bank and Gaza, killing dozens of civilians and destroying homes, apartment buildings and hundreds of dunums of arable land. The destruction in the Gazan town of Rafah rivalled the levelling of the centre of Jenin in April 2002, according to one correspondent. Tanks and mammoth bulldozers were brought in to crush 200 homes. Claiming that only ten were destroyed, the military then sent the bulldozers back 'to grind the evidence that the houses ever existed into the dust'. (1) The civilian victims included children, with their heads ripped off by tank shells. (One in five of the 280 people killed in Rafah over the past three years have been children or teenagers. During the same period Palestinians operating from Rafah have killed three Israeli soldiers and one settler.) 'The trouble is,' said an Israel army spokeswoman, 'when no one else is practising law and order we have to do it ourselves'. (2)

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