Sheldon Richman on the plight of the Palestinians

Realization of the [Zionist] dream of a Jewish state logically entailed the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinians, who by the common standard of justice were legitimate owners of their land.  Those who remained were made third-class citizens or even worse in an apartheid state.  The countless micro offenses against those individuals were compounded by a macro offense: the destruction of their flourishing culture, communities, and country...  [H]ere's one thing advocates of universal freedom and justice can say: The rights of the Palestinians must not be plastered over by irrelevant claims about the Jewish State's right to exist.

~ Sheldon Richman, Coming to Palestine