Israel's Hidden War

You can't miss the bombs and incursions, but you can miss the border guards and bureaucrats! That is unless you read Amira Hass, who tirelessly pursues such injustices.

For those who can't be bothered to click the link, here's her conclusion:

The lowliest clerk in the Interior Ministry and Population Registry has the authority and the opportunity to intervene in the critical affairs of every Palestinian man and woman: when and whom they will marry, whether they will live together, whether they will raise their children together. The power of the most minor Israeli clerk over the lives of the Palestinians is greater than that of any minister in the Palestinian government.

And yet the Western countries continue to demand that the Palestinian Authority behave like a sovereign with respect to a territory and a population that are under Israeli control, and they continue to be tolerant of another policy of mass expulsion that Israel is implementing against their citizens as well.