Apartheid "Peace" Explodes
Against The Current vol. 89
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/960
Date Written: 2000-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2000
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12947
The explosion in Jerusalem, occupied Palestine and the state of Israel is horrific to contemplate—but not at all difficult to understand. Underneath what appeared to begin as rioting over "holy places," the real issue is this: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are risking their lives in the face of live ammunition in defense of their basic human dignity. And in that act, they have posed the greatest challenge to the "stability" of imperialist control of the Middle East that we have witnessed since the 1973 war.
