Let's Talk About Palestine - Paperback

by Terrell E. Arnold (Author)

Today Palestinians face complete forfeiture of their homeland. At no point in this sixty year saga of land theft and human rights violations has any international organization or any country succeeded in halting Israel's takeover or Israeli confinement, abuse and expulsion of the Palestinian people. Rather, the United States, Middle East peace broker by default, has sided with Israel when the Palestinians objected or the United Nations sought to obtain Israeli compliance with international law or ordinary fairness. At this time Palestinians live in open air prisons comprising about 5% of their ancestral home. More than a million are third class citizens of Israel, but close to three million are confined in scattered bantustans in the West Bank, while more than a million are crowded into the nearly completely devastated Gaza Strip. While pressing both parties to return to the negotiating table, the United States, other western powers or the Arab states have failed to halt Israeli land theft by settlement building on land confiscated from Palestinians or to slow expulsion of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. Lacking help from the civilized world, the Palestinian people are condemned when they fight back. The outside world insists that they be non-violent as their homeland is forcibly taken away from them.

Author Biography

The writer is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer with over 30 years experience in various diplomatic assignments, including tours in Egypt, Syria, India, Brazil, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. In retirement he has worked extensively on how to deal with politically motivated violence, including how to measure the effectiveness of programs in this field. He is author, co-author and editor of seven books on foreign affairs and politically motivated violence topics, including Fighting Back-Winning the War on Terrorism with Neil Livingstone, and Terrorism the New Warfare with former Iran Hostage Moorhead Kennedy. He is a graduate of Stanford University, has an MA in Political Science and Economics from San Jose State University. He currently teaches in the adult education (LIFE) program of the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and now serves as President of the Rotary Club of Stevens Point Wisconsin.