Friday, August 1, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
David Solway: Fenced In - 'The Israeli government's present intention of holding on to a sliver of the West Bank within the perimeter of the security fence is an issue of serious import and is widely regarded as an illegal land grab. Yet the issue is by no means as simple as it has been made out to be and cannot be cursorily decided to the advantage of the hypothetical Palestinian state. First and foremost, this is the same West Bank from which Jews were expelled in 1929. It was never "Palestinian" territory in the first place and no political entity called "Palestine" ever existed except as a Roman provincial designation revived in the twentieth century as a Mandatory appellation...'
