By: Ibrahim Hewitt Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:36
“What we have seen within the past week can only be described as racist, state-controlled terrorism and military anarchy. There is no less than an apartheid system existing to differentiate between Israeli Jews, Arabs of the originally occupied territories, now called Israel, and Arabs of the territories occupied during the 1967 war. Movement and trade between the areas are restricted, and many people from outside Jerusalem are prevented or deterred from praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque.”1
These words, so pertinent to what is happening today in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, were written more than 26 years ago. I was the spokesman for a delegation of British Muslims who visited Palestine in March 1988, during the first intifada. As we pointed out in a press conference at the end of the visit, “it is even more painful to see that the free Western world turns a blind eye and even gives open support, pumping billions of dollars into the Jewish apartheid regime on the pretext that it is a democracy.”
Little has changed in the quarter century since that visit and peace is a long way off; “there will be no peace without justice”, we said in 1988, and that remains the case, for this is still no justice for the people of Palestine. We hear of new Israeli settlements being given the go-ahead by an increasingly right-wing government with which, incredibly, the Palestinian Authority collaborates in order to protect illegal settlers.
Read The full Article By: Ibrahim Hewitt at ‘The Middle East Monitor’
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