Fellow Canuck George left this morning, we’re all sad to see him leave.
We just returned from Ramallah the Palestinian capital & it was incredibly informative.
We drove to Ramallah & got through the checkpoints OK. We met with the spokesperson for the political party Fatah today & it was great.
Fatah’s leader Marwan Barghouti has been imprisoned for 8 years. He is the Palestinian version of Nelson Mandela. He is currently jailed because he is a threat to the Israeli’s. His slogan is ‘Security does not make peace, Peace makes security’.
His solution is 2 states, however in order for it to work peacefully all the Palestinian parties must unite. There was a meeting in prison among all of the top Palestinain parties; Hamas (the current leading party), Fatah, & BNFP & they agreed to unite & have Marwan lead them. There borders would be those before the June 4 1967 war, Jerusalem as the capital, right to return for Palestinian refugees to their original homes, they are not happy with the settlers here. It is my feeling that you can not remove them or you are doing the same thing as the Israeli’s are doing to you, I think the Israeli’s will never release control of Jerusalem to the Palestine (although it is within their recognized borders) so an International peace keeping force really is the answer there. Apparently there is pressure being put on the Israel’s to release him & they seem very optimistic that he will be released.
I do fear that someone will perpetrate an attack & set them back to square one, and my thought when listening to Radwa enthusiastically speak of how peace is possible solution, here, the first thought in my mind was, they’ll kill him.
I believe that if the Palestinians can be patient the world will eventually see the terrible injustice that is being forced upon them the world will finally stand up and take notice. However, when attacks like Munich 1972 happen the world takes notice but it is the worst kind of attention. Nobody a Bono for instance will align them selves with an organization that kills innocents. At any rate every time they fight back it justifies to the world their treatment? They must be patient….easy for me to say.
We took pictures of how the Israeli’s cut down their olive trees. It takes 30 years for olive trees to produce olives; we saw entire forests cut down. It is so sad
When we returned the small boy who dropped ‘Whitey’ off had taken her back. It would be fine, if the Mother is still around but she is not and although he is a small boy he is particularly mean to her. Yasser made a call & he brought her to the court door threw her inside turned & ran away…at any rate we’ll try & help her as long as we’re here. A Turkish girl Denise is the kittens surrogate Mom & is really great with the kittens.
I’m pretty sore & tired from the ride so I’m out for now
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