The West Bank of Palestine has about disappeared. Israeli “settlers” have been chipping away at it for decades, emptying one village after another, demolishing one olive grove after another, and replacing them with apartment buildings for Israeli settlers. This is against international law, but neither the Israeli government nor any other has done anything about it. 

Under international law countries are not permitted to appropriate occupied territory of another country. In Israel there was a Jewish organization that tried to prevent the theft of Palestinian property and territory. I have not seen any reference to this organization for a long time, and I do not know if it still exists.

Since 1947 Israel has continually expanded its own borders by illegally incorporating Palestinian land into Israel. Israeli bulldozers would appear in a Palestinian village or olive grove and demolish the homes, uproot the trees and drive out the Palestinian owners. The stolen land became part of Israel.  An American, Rachel Corrie, was a victim when an Israeli armored bulldozer ran over her and crushed her for protesting.

For years, the remnant of Palestine has consisted of two separate and unconnected parts, the West Bank and Gaza. The West Bank has continued to disappear, and Gaza has been destroyed. Now the remnant of the West Bank is being transferred to Israel. The Palestinian state has disappeared.

Through this entire process of the destruction of a people and their country, Israel succeeded in misrepresenting Israel as the victim. All Palestinians were branded terrorists, even babies who are shot dead to prevent them from growing up to be terrorists. The victim status with which Jews endowed themselves and the money used for bribes, left the world silent for decades, as the slow genocide of Palestine proceeded.

The Arabs, made impotent by their schism, were unable to come together and use their vast numbers against the Israelis. Arab impotence resulted in the Arab countries being destroyed one by one, as Washington in the 21st century at the expense of American blood and money eliminated the Arab world in behalf of Greater Israel under the rubric of a “war on terror.”

Today the remnant of the Arab world remains as divided as ever.

And the world remains as silent as ever about Israel’s crimes against humanity.

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Paul Craig Roberts is a renowned author and academic, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy where this article was originally published. Dr. Roberts was previously associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration. He is a regular contributor to Global Research. 

Featured image: Israeli soldiers demolish a Palestinian building in the so-called Area C, in the occupied West Bank. Photo: credit: WAFA

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