The other side to the settlement issue — Palestinian death penalty for selling to Jews

Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
20 September '10

There’s an interesting story in today’s Jerusalem Post which reminds us of a side to the settlement issue that rarely makes it into the western press:

“One day after the Palestinian Authority reaffirmed the death penalty for Palestinians who sell land to Israelis,” the paper reports, “one of the most prominent Arab land dealers called on the Israeli authorities to help him and other Palestinians whose lives are at risk”.

If you deconstruct that one single paragraph, unpack all the assumptions contained within it and lay it out in the open for all to see, you can explain pretty much everything one needs to know about guilt and innocence in the entire Israel-Palestine conflict. That, of course, is precisely why the likes of the BBC and the Guardian are so quiet on such matters. So then, what exactly does it tell us?

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