Justifying a Land Grab in Hebron

Following up on their recent media critique, Nigel Parry and Ali Abunimah claim that the Israeli spin on the "Sabbath Massacre" story was intended to create "a rationale for ethnic cleansing."

Also on the Electronic Intifada, Hasan Abu-Nimah comments on the perpetuation of a tragic status quo in Palestine. He writes, "The disturbing reality is, therefore, that while political leaders (mainly in Israel) are totally engaged in unprincipled opportunistic fights for their personal ambitions and short-sighted selfish interests, while world powers lack the needed political will, and indeed the moral courage, to enforce the rule of international law, and while regional powers remain largely incapacitated by their accumulated failures, innocent blood continues to be senselessly spilled and the cycle of violence continues to spiral wildly out of control."