Monday, August 15, 2005

Israeli pull-out from Gaza in perspective

The Israeli pull-out from Gaza started this morning and protests from Israeli's has so far been peaceful. It's certainly a step in the right direction although it's worth putting the whole thing into perspective.

The Israeli settlers being evicted now who have been living on occupied land illegally for the last however many years account for 1% of the Israeli occupiers in Palestine.

The land the Israeli settlers being evicted now have been occupying accounts for only 2% of all occupied land in Palestine.

Israel will still occupy Palestinian land, air and sea borders.

The wall/fence the Israeli's are building to protect them from Palestinian suicide bombers cuts deep into occupied land and does nothing to protect Palestinians from Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships.

The Israeli's need to stop using the war as justification for the continued illegal occupation of Palestine. If any other country had ignored as many UN resolutions as Israel has, they would have been bombed off the face of the planet by now.