Demand progress for Palestinians Posted on May 15th
While Israelis and their supporters around the world celebrate three score years as a thriving economic engine in the Middle East, Palestinians have yet to celebrate a single year or even a single day as a nation.
While a million Palestinians suffer in unbearable squalor imposed upon them by Israel in Gaza, Israeli expansion in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank continues at breakneck pace. Israeli infrastructure consisting of roads, settlements, military bases and nearly 600 checkpoints gobbles up 40 percent of the West Bank. Jewish settler population in occupied territories is approaching a half million souls.
President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice make trip after trip after trip to the region imploring the Israelis to cease their settlements on occupied Palestinian land and negotiate fairly for a two-state solution. But until the U.S. makes our annual $3 billion in aid to Israel contingent on actual progress instead of lip service while settlements grow like mushrooms, the long-suffering Palestinians will continue to be the most ignored and neglected folks on the planet.
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