Monday, February 3, 2020

Jared Kushner's Blindness

Here are some admissions and observations about the occupation from Yehuda Shaul:

I stood at checkpoints that divide the different areas of the West Bank. I entered families’ homes in the middle of the night to carry out arrests, conduct searches, and, most often, simply to “create the feeling of being pursued among the Palestinian population,” to use the IDF’s official language.

I shot indiscriminately into residential neighborhoods with a grenade machine gun in response to gunfire on settlements in Hebron. And, in any given area - sometimes on the very same street - I enforced two separate legal systems: a civilian system with full rights for Israeli settlers, and a military system without citizenship or basic rights for Palestinians.

This is the reality that prevails on the ground in 2020. Yet despite Kushner’s claim that he sees the world as it is, this reality, which every Palestinian resident and Israeli soldier in the West Bank knows, is somehow invisible to him.

You can read the rest @
https://www.972mag.com/jared-kushner-soldiers-occupation/

Not only does Kushner somehow not see the occupation, he also apparently cannot see the apartheid his "deal of the century" represents.

This "deal" is not worthy of coming from the USA. If Kushner cannot see that, he should not be representing us in this or any other matter.

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