Adding to the overload of frenetic footwork around the UN's recent report on Israeli war crimes during its invasion of the Gaza Strip last year, Israel has now told the Palestinian Authority that it will not open up the radio spectrum needed by a second West Bank telecommunications company - unless the PA agrees to stop pursuing action on the Goldstone Commission's findings. Talk about an ironic approach to communication: keep your mouths shut about our crimes or we'll do whatever we can to prevent you from talking with each other. Shameless (albeit hardly shocking) blackmail. Getting a dependable phone signal in the West Bank is already problematic in many places, e.g. East Jerusalem. Nobody should be subjected to this in the 21st century, yet it seems there are no limits to Israel's ability to make an outrageously repressive situation worse.
If Israel and the US are the model democracies [sic] other Middle Eastern countries are supposed to hold candles to, it seems we should finally accept the reality that democracy has taken on an altogether new meaning - new model - than what myself and most others i know have always understood it to be. Zionist democracy is Orwell's big black boot with Bill O'Reilly's face on the sole screaming 'Shut up! Shut up!' just before it grinds our molars into our throats. There is no freedom of choice, freedom of movement, freedom of thought... Democracy appears to be the new name for oligarchy. This makes me feel nostalgic for the past, as in let's bring back the tsar.
Yesterday i spoke with a Palestinian merchant about importing organic, fair trade olive oil. He was naturally quite interested, but couldn't fathom Israel allowing anything to be exported out of the West Bank. He's right, it's next to impossible. Can anyone out there tell me the point of strangulating someone who's already being forced to play dead??
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