America and Palestine

Letter April 19, 2014
US can help improve its image in Muslim world if it adopts neutral approach in this issue, stops siding with Israel.

FAISALABAD: An independent Palestinian state seems as distant a dream today as it has been always. Israel has continuously denied the existence of a Palestinian state through its brutal actions and illegal settlements on the occupied land. The UN Secretary General, Ban-ki Moon, has called these settlements “a fatal blow to the two-state solution”. Unfortunately, the US has played a very dubious role in all of this, siding blatantly with Israel and never criticising Israel for the illegal settlements. America can help improve its image among the Muslim world if it adopts a more neutral approach in this issue and stops siding with Israel. Quite clearly, there can be no permanent solution or peace in the Middle East without a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

Sufyan Dilawar

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20th, 2014.

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