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Wednesday 16 June 2010

Why Palestine will be free‏

Today UNISON Conference will debate an emergency composite on the Gaza Aid Flotilla by the Israeli state killing machine. Over on the 21st Century Socialism website John Wight writes a compelling overview of colonialism and military repression in occupied Palestine and southern Lebanon.
http://21stcenturysocialism.com/article/why_palestine_will_be_free_01997.html

Wight concludes:

“Ultimately, the brutal attack by Israeli commandos on unarmed civilians as they attempted to ferry aid to Gaza recently provides yet more evidence that the moral foundations upon which this apartheid state rests are starting to melt away. More massacres, such as took place recently in international waters, will certainly follow as the unremitting struggle by the Palestinians and their supporters for justice continues. Regardless, the tide of history cannot be reversed. Moreover, it is a tide which points to one simple and incontrovertible truth. Palestine will be free.”