[news] Trying Times for Palestinians

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Never since the concoction of the Israeli state and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of nearly one million Palestinians in 1947-48, has an Israeli government been as determined as that of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to settle its account with the Palestinians, in so vile and careless a way...The Israeli heyday may be over soon, due to growing predictions that the American project - for various reasons, notwithstanding the disaster-prone Iraq war - is likely to diminish in coming years. And without US patronage, Israel is much less capable of serving as the region's bully.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7493