Ilan Pappe on the development of a murderous Israeli strategy

The mega prison of Palestine

• in recent weeks a clearer Israeli strategy towards the Gaza Strip's future has emerged 
• The 21st century Jewish state is about to complete the construction of two mega prisons, the largest of their kind in human history.
• As far as the Israelis are concerned, the mega prison of the West Bank can be called a state.
• not even the most cooperative members of the PA are willing to accept the mega prison reality as "peace" or even as a "two state settlement."
• the third intifada is on its way and the Israeli response would be a further...ethnic cleansing, systematic killings and economic strangulation.
• a hopeful trend that vindicates the Hamas insistence that Israel only understands the language of force.
• the west can put an end to this unprecedented inhumanity and criminality, tomorrow.

Ilan Pappe, full piece in  The Electronic Intifada, 5 March 2008