http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflicts/israel_palestine/occupation_end.jsp Comments for "Palestine: this occupation will end, Ghassan Khatib " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflicts/israel_palestine/occupation_end.jsp <p>It has now been forty years since the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza started, and it seems as if it happened <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_israel_palestinians/maps/html/six_day_war.stm" target="_blank">yesterday</a>. In all those years, one thing has never changed and that is the Palestinian insistence on a total rejection of and continued resistance to this occupation.</p> <p>These constants, rejection and resistance, have taken many different forms but they have never changed and there is little likelihood that they ever will. In parallel, Israel in its behaviour <em>vis-a-vis</em> the Palestinian territories has gone from one approach to another in almost all aspects except one: Israel has consistently continued its illegal settlement <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/w-titles/weizman_e_hollow_land.shtml" target="_blank">expansion project</a> in occupied territory.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflicts/israel_palestine/occupation_end.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflicts/israel_palestine/occupation_end.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflicts/israel_palestine/occupation_end.jsp#comment conflicts israel &amp; palestine - old roads, new maps Original Copyright Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:38:40 +0100 admin 19694 at http://www.opendemocracy.net