Milo Minderbinder lives.

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Aggression Under False Pretenses
By Ismail Haniyeh
Tuesday, July 11, 2006; Page A17
GAZA, Palestine –

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01108.html
As I inspect the ruins of our infrastructure -- the largess of donor nations and international efforts all turned to rubble once more by F-16s and American-made missiles -- my thoughts again turn to the minds of Americans. What do they think of this?

It sounds like a money making proposition. We give the Israel the weapons to blow up a power plant that is insured for forty eight million dollars by an agency of the US government. Where is Milo Minderbinder when we need him.

But there is a remedy, and while it is not easy it is consistent with our long-held beliefs. Palestinian priorities include recognition of the core dispute over the land of historical Palestine and the rights of all its people; resolution of the refugee issue from 1948;

I suppose he is referring to Resolution 194

Resolution 194 (adopted in 1948) recommended "at the earliest practicable date" the return of refugees who intended to live in peace with their neighbors in what became Israel in 1948, or their resettlement in Arab countries and compensation for damages or loss of property. The Palestine Conciliation Commission was instructed "to facilitate the repatriation, resettlement and economic and social rehabilitation of the refugees." But the "earliest practicable date" never arrived. The Arab states, expecting to win the war they had begun by violating U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 (which called in 1947 for the partition of British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab one), voted against Resolution 194. The refugees and their hosts rejected resettlement and compensation. Later, having lost, the Arabs began claiming that Resolution 194 had established a "right of return" to homes inside Israel proper. The central figures in Tolan's book remain symbolic, but in fact the Palestinian holds nothing to "relinquish" and the Israeli is not obligated to "accept" or "barter."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 059_3.html

Don't know why I am posting this. I suppose I just like the bit about Israel blowing up a power plant that we are insuring with our tax dollars.

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Reality in Lebanon a slide show of air war damage