So, Who Is The Guilty Party?

A description of the current situation by Mustafa Barghouthi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative:-

...[an] Israeli “partner” now also boasts a general public that has shifted dramatically to the right, and to which an apartheid system for Palestinians has become an acceptable norm.

On the other side is the Palestinian Authority — one that paradoxically holds little real authority, and exists as a sort of fiefdom within the Israeli matrix of control. Further debilitating the P.A. is a protracted internal Palestinian division, total dependence on foreign aid and a decline of democracy and human rights. Finally, the Palestinian Authority is constantly pressured to provide security for its occupier while failing to provide any protection whatsoever to its own people from that same occupier.

And who is responsible?

Could it be occasional Arab terror?

Perhaps an inherent Arab inabaility to get their act together?

Maybe even an unwillingness to make peace that would allow Israel to exist?

Nope.

He claims:

How did we get here? The answer, in large part, has to do with the continued and unabated construction of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 17 years since the Oslo agreement.

In this time, the number of settlers has increased by 300 percent and the number of settlements doubled...About 60 percent of the West Bank and 80 percent of water resources have been consumed...

We have reached, and probably surpassed, that critical point at which any more settlements mean the death of the two-state solution.

Unbelievable that this op-ed was accepted for publication.

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