Ambassador’s peace wish for Israel, nothing for Palestinians…

peter.reardon: Opinion

Israeli ambassador to London, Ron Proser’s sentiment for peace was almost diplomatic, had he only included Palestinians with ‘the people of Israel’. Instead he said:

"The basic simple goal of the people of Israel is to be allowed to live in peace, without violence, without fear, and without terror." source: NowPublic  in '’Recent News Quotes

I wonder, does it not cross the minds of those governing Israel that the majority of Palestinians might also like to live in peace instead of being confined to what is a virtual ‘Refugee Camp’ named Palestine?

It is difficult for me not to see the average Palestinian living a duel life, that of refugee but also that of hostages.

I speak from my experience of having worked in refugee camps on the Thai/Cambodian border and witnessed the uncertainties of any future for the mainly Cambodian women and children other than a long incarceration, separated from family, waiting to be ‘processed’ (whatever that entailed?) by the camp administrators.

In Palestine the people are being processed by the Israeli military, that is, reduced in number, by its guns and missiles. These armaments, supplied by western governments who, it seems, are evidently friendly to the concept of an expanding Israel at the expense of basic human-rights for the Palestinians: that of life and freedom from the threat of death or injury, food and shelter.

Is the world prepared to sit by, I wonder, watching the absorption of the territory of Palestine by a neighbouring state which seems to covet the land of Palestine?