Re: <nettime> silence on Palestine?

[Rahul Goswami via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

I present a few points here to bring balance to the subject:

1. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, 
known as the Partition Plan. Acceptance of the Partition Plan would have 
meant the establishment of two states, but the surrounding Arab 
countries and the local Arab population vehemently rejected the proposal.

2. After the May 1948 war, Israel (other Western countries too) 
immediately absorbed Jewish refugees. Palestinian refugees were placed 
in camps and kept there generation after generation as a matter of Arab 
policy. Israel withdrew entirely from Gaza in 2005, but there are still 
eight UN-run refugee camps there. Why should there be? Gaza is 
completely under Palestinian control. But dismantling the camps would 
mean removing symbols of Palestinian “resistance”.

3. During the 1990-91 Gulf War, Kuwait expelled over 300,000 
Palestinians working in the country when Yasser Arafat supported Saddam 
Hussein. The Palestinians were seen as a likely fifth column. There was 
scant objection from other Arab countries, or pro-Palestine voices in 
the West, about the expulsion.

Rahul Goswami

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