Recently, at the time of the visit of US VP Joseph Biden to Israel, the latter's government decided to insult both him and the US government by announcing deepening of its conquest and colonization of East Jerusalem. If the US government doesn't respond in some substantive way and if Israel's government doesn't retreat in some significant way (such as canceling the construction project), won't the latter have shown who's boss in this relationship? what is the US foreign-policy elite doing besides talk? will Obama cave? or has he done so already?
(Is it time for the Palestinians to simply surrender to Israel (giving up the idea of a separate state and the two-state "solution") and then struggle to win civil rights within the Israeli political system, as with the South African struggle against apartheid?) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
