Celebrations overlook the plight of Palestinians - Israel/Australia/Terrorism
17/3/08
The legal propriety of the November 1947 UN General Assembly vote that prompted Palestine’s dismemberment is still controversial. The sea of darkness to which you refer in your editorial (”An island of hope in a sea of darkness”, 15-16/3) is a direct outcome of that vote and the hostility engendered as the overwhelming majority of the native population became dispossessed. Contemporary Israel is born out of ethnic cleansing and remains both unapologetic and unreformed. Her intransigence perpetuates indigenous dispossession, has promoted extremist reaction and denies a still native majority the self-determination that is its due according to the UN Charter. John Stretch Carnarvon, WA