Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be
under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a
day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the
world’s largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most
densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often
savage terror and arbitrary punishment, with no purpose other than to humiliate
and degrade, and with the further goal of ensuring that Palestinian hopes for a
decent future will be crushed and that the overwhelming global support for a
diplomatic settlement that will grant these rights will be nullified.
The intensity of this commitment on the part of the Israeli political
leadership has been dramatically illustrated just in the past few days, as they
warn that they will “go crazy” if Palestinian rights are given limited
recognition at the UN.
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