The current decade has been particularly calamitous for PalestiniansThe belief that the Palestinian struggle for self-determination can be made to vanish and the question of Palestine removed from the global agenda has been given the lie yet again. Despite unprecedented regional turmoil,a global refugee crisis, and the best efforts of Israel and its western patrons to declare the Israeli-Palestinian clash an insignificant sideshow until further notice, or it is again in the headlines.
How we arrived at this point is no grand mystery. Under cover of the Oslo agreements,Israel has during the past two decades consolidated and intensified its control of the occupied Palestinian territories to an unprecedented degree. Simultaneously, the Palestinian people are today more isolated and fragmented than at any point since their initial dispossession and dispersal in 1948. Their leaders, or who once enjoyed levels of popular support that would be the envy of democratically elected heads of state,have today been reduced to illegitimate and widely reviled appendages of Israel’s colonial project.
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Source: theguardian.com