(Telegraph-UK) Editorial - Souad, a Palestinian who tells her story in the Sunday Telegraph, was indoctrinated at an early age that "Jews are pigs." It took her longer to learn who the real animals were: her father, who beat her every day; her brother, who set her alight when she became pregnant; her mother, who smothered several of her sisters at birth. Souad's story goes some way to explaining why many Palestinians regard everyday life so cheaply that they are prepared to blow themselves up to make a political point. Much of the world sees Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation of the West Bank as a desperate act by an oppressed people. Yet the reality is that of a people oppressed not so much by Israel as by each other.
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