MER - Israel Has Impoverished and Imprisoned Palestinians

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Despite all the occassionally soothing rhetoric, and all the repeated promises aobut a Palestinian State, this is what Israeli, U.S., and European policies have actually done to the Palestinians. Far worse than Apartheid of old in fact... <br> <br>From the article: More than 1.3 million Palestinians, out of a population of 3.7 million (including the inhabitants of East Jerusalem), were defined as poor in 2005. More than half of them, 820,000, were defined as sunk in "deep poverty." <b on></b> </body>