MIDDLE EAST
Palestinians chose fate by raids on Israel
The Palestinians must also be held accountable for their actions
The 50th anniversary of the Six Day War has elicited widely differing responses. Some have celebrated the young Jewish state’s decisive victory over its enemies, while others have deplored the commencement of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, captured from Jordan and Egypt, respectively. Given the aims and ideology of her organisation, it was hardly surprising to see the Media Review Network’s Suraya Dadoo adopting the latter approach (Colonial arrogance cages all of Palestine, June 22). It was not surprising to find her piece to be selective, emotive and unconvincing. At the core of Dadoo’s flawed analysis is her depiction of the Palestinians as being essentially passive, a subject population continually at the mercy of superior forces ruthlessly controlling their destiny. Palestinians come across as people wholly lacking in agency, fated forever to be acted upon by external forces rather than being allowed to become actors in their own story. It follows that Palestini...
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