Divide and rule?
Benjamin Pogrund
June 7, 2006 11:05 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/benjamin_pogrund/2006/06/israelis_and_palestinians_are_1.html
Israel yesterday afternoon gave Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the
Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee, permission to
come from the West Bank to speak in Jerusalem at an Israeli-Palestinian
dialogue meeting. But the permission was received about
two-and-a-quarter hours after the 2pm, highly publicised start of the
meeting. So Abed Rabbo wasn't there.
It's a familiar scenario to those who work for dialogue: applications
are submitted to the Israeli military for a Palestinian to cross one of
the checkpoints from the West Bank (it doesn't seem to matter whether
the application is submitted a month or a week beforehand, but a cat
and mouse game follows); a permit is promised, this afternoon or
tomorrow morning, but then there is delay and delay.
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