Mideast conflict takes its toll on children
"As anthropologist Talal Asad observes, massacres "are not new. But there is something special about the fact that the West, having set up international law, then finds reasons why it cannot be followed in particular circumstances.""
News-Times Staff
Article Last Updated: 05/25/2008 04:03:56 AM EDT
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict turned 60 this month. That's 60 years since the founding of a Jewish state and 60 years of Palestinian dispossession.
Seventy-five percent of non-Jewish natives of historic Palestine were expelled and prevented from returning home.
This 60-year-old zero-sum game defies the intent of international law, which seeks to resolve conflict peacefully.
It particularly defies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the right to return home. Ironically, the declaration also celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.
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News-Times Staff
Article Last Updated: 05/25/2008 04:03:56 AM EDT
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict turned 60 this month. That's 60 years since the founding of a Jewish state and 60 years of Palestinian dispossession.
Seventy-five percent of non-Jewish natives of historic Palestine were expelled and prevented from returning home.
This 60-year-old zero-sum game defies the intent of international law, which seeks to resolve conflict peacefully.
It particularly defies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the right to return home. Ironically, the declaration also celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.
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