Peace in Palestine?

Abstract

"As I wrote this, on 15 October 2010, I received an email from Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) in Jerusalem. Again they asked for volunteers to help the Palestinian farmers to gather their grape harvest. The army was supposed to protect them from the religious settlers but the soldiers left early, exposing them to the settlers who, ‘threatened to crush their skulls’. On the return of the farmers the following day, they found that the grapes already harvested had been stolen. Two days earlier, on October 13, RHR had reported on the theft of the olive harvest by religious settlers elsewhere and the vandalising of hundreds of trees, which had been photographed as objective evidence by members of the Jewish human rights organisation, B’Tselem. The violence is normal for Palestinians and Jews, because such events happen every year throughout the West Bank"