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I stumbled upon a comment posted on the rabid Zionist and Islamaphobe Atlas Shrugs blog, (available for inspection on my Blogwatch), from a Mr Ibrahim, who claims to be a former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, entitled 'A Letter to my Arab Brothers and Sisters.' Mr Ibrahim says that resistance to Israel is futile, and until it is abandoned Palestinians can only expect further death and destruction. He cites Egypt and Jordan as examples of the benefits afforded by this realisation. Since these countries ceased supporting the Palestinian's struggle they have been rewarded generously by the US, and are now experiencing development and prosperity. Further, most other Arabs couldn't care less about the plight of the Palestinians. Those in the Gulf are too busy spending their vast oil revenues on impressive cultural and educational projects, while in the Magreb they're preoccupied with simply developing their societies out of poverty.

Only Syria continues to actively support the Palestinians, but does so only for its own cynically self-serving purposes, such as pleasing its paymaster, Iran. Likewise the PLO has been for the most part just a means for the leadership to enrich itself at the expense of sympathetic donors and the Palestinian people - Yasser Arafat being a prime example of one who lined the pockets of his family.

It's no use, Mr Ibrahim's letter goes on, elderly Palestinians waving the keys to their former homes in Jaffa or Nazareth, to where there will never be any return for them. Palestinians must accept that the are a defeated people. Only once the struggle to 'liberate' Palestine is abandoned can the situation move on. He suggests that the Israelis, and the US, will be generous victors. When reality is accepted, and the resistance is abandoned, peace and democracy can begin to be built in that part of historic Palestine that remains to its people.

While readers digest these points, it's worth having a look at the sort of generosity in victory that the Zionists might extend to the defeated Palestinians, by turning to how Israeli Arabs, some 25% of Israel's population, are treated. Many Israeli Arabs, including their representatives in the Knesset, understandably felt strongly about the massacre of their people in Gaza. Many demonstrated, and made a fuss. Israel responded with mass arrests, and imposed a ban on the political parties that represent them from taking part in the forthcoming (democratic) elections. Not content with disenfranchising Israeli Arabs, some in the Knesset are proposing that they be expelled from the country, and are actively campaigning to that end. Read about it HERE

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