‘West Bank: Israeli troops hold two Palestinian girls back as they cry following arrest of their mother during a demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh in protest against the confiscation of Palestinian land to expand the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish on Friday,’ so depicts an AFP photograph (Aug 25). This has gone within an inch of my life.
In the photograph, the two Palestinian girls, one about 8 years, were shivering. But to me the original UN resolution for the establishment of the state of Palestine was also shivering like jelly; the OIC and the Arab League felt as usual for the last about ten years – oh! I see; so did their 57 members Muslim countries with the Arab members having been reconciled with such uncomfortable truth since long; and for western democracies, the claim for freedom of expression becoming alien for Palestinians to protect their land from Israel.
For Israel, too much is never enough: Who can safely rule out more acres of the Palestinian lands, in time to come, for graveyards?
So, what exactly is so foreign for the Palestinians about a foreign country like Israel?
Z A KAZMI
Karachi
