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SIR – Frank Adam joins Joshua Rowe to bring us a Manchester Zionist vision on conflict Israel-Palestine. 19659004] Frank relinquished Rowe 's argument that the land was empty and instead suggests that much of the Israeli land was subject to a mere commercial transaction. Arabic to Jewish. An extraordinary declaration considering that, in less than six months, from December 1947 to mid-May 1948, Zionist armed groups expelled some 440,000 Palestinians from 220 villages.

A devious Israeli law was introduced, designed so that a Palestinian owner who was away from his property for more than one day could have his land purchased by a Jew. Perhaps such transactions were in the spirit of Frank by offering his new explanation on the state of Israel.

The new state of Israel, in fact, was built on the ruins of a dispossessed Palestinian homeland (Muslim and Christian) to solve the problem. problem of a Jewish exit from Europe where anti-Semitism endured the war, and a colonial power unable to enforce its tenure of occupation.

As a result, most Palestinians have been turned into refugees, and Israel has denied them the right to return home since. This, although the Palestinians have nothing to do with the Holocaust, but because their lands were entrusted to them by a colonial power that goes away.

Frank rejects Israel's disproportionate mbadacres of Gazans living in abysmal and unsustainable conditions. That Israel allow the shooting of unarmed demonstrators, press, media and children (146 killed and thousands seriously injured in one week) is therefore considered of no consequence or importance under international law.

How strange it is that the oppressed have so easily become the oppressors, while the justice of the Gazans' demand for return to their dispossessed homes is ignored by Zionist apologists for ethnic cleansing. Meanwhile, the illegal military occupation, the blockade and apartheid remain undisputed, despite the indignation of extrajudicial executions, the inauguration of the US Embbady in the divided city of Jerusalem and human rights violations such as detentions of children.

defined boundaries and continues with its major plan to build a "Greater Israel" still, as made public by former Israeli Prime Ministers Ben-Gurion and Yitzak Shamir. To make sure that there is no suggestion of equality, the Zionists define Israel as "the Jewish state of Israel".

Israel is occupied by the West Bank and Gaza and thousands of Gazans take part in the march. back were not Hamas pawns or "infiltrators" trying to violate a sovereign state. In fact, they were "citizens" displaced and deprived of their rights, who came out of a ghetto built by the state. The Israeli army did not detain "foreign invaders", but it killed and suppressed those for whom it was responsible.

The Zionist regime intends to perpetuate the status quo so that it continues to pocket even more illegal Palestinian land. Jewish settlements populated by motivated recruits from Europe and the rest of the world. Israel is unique because of its 50 years of illegal occupation, without any recognized international border to restrict its contempt for Palestinians' rights to self-determination.

As a nuclear energy with weapons of mbad destruction, and with the United States, a more and more voluntary donor under Trump, Israel feels safe to operate without physical or behavioral limits.

Bob Storey,

Skibbereen.