Saturday, April 14, 2007

palestine, the last colony

Palestine, actually, does not exist. Palestinians and Israelis live in Israel. Palestine is not a nation, it is a territory in Israel. I remember some years ago that Arafat, who died in 1994, wanted to go I-do-not-know-where and he simply could not, because Israel did not give him the permission. Now it is almost the same. There is no Palestine. There is just Israel which has the control of Palestine as well. Palestine seems to be the last colony, and hopefully still for a short time. Many Palestinians lived and still live in Iraq. But now the situation is getting worse for them because they are hated both by Sunnitis and by Shiitis and they suffer violence more and more often. So many leave the country. But, differently from any other citizen in the world, they have no homeland, they cannot go to Palestine, simply because there is no Palestine, there is just Israel which does not want at all to open the borders to Palestinians emigrated abroad. Palestinians are what Israelis were some decades ago: a population with no land.How can you think that it is possible to solve the problem of Middle East terrorism if you do not consider and solve these situations?What is being done now, that is forcing 'democracy' in Middle East, seems what can do a doctor who wants to heal a wound simply covering it instead of curing and consider where it comes from.