insular militarism and a rise in xenophobic and religious nationalism, with any discussion of Palestinians' civil rights confined to a dissident margin. A few days earlier, Roger Cohen in the New York Times described Israel as the obstacle to peace because of its refusal to extend the freeze on building in the disputed territories which would be a body blow to the latest peace effort whereas Mahmoud Abbas and his prime minister Salaam Fayed were very serious about peace. It is hard to credit that people can ignore reality quite so brazenly and display such an egregious absence of elementary logic. How can the settlement freeze be the...Tuesday, 28th September 2010
Demonising the victims
Yesterday’s Observerdescribed Israel as the obstacle to peace because of the settlements, its
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