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Palestinians Want the Jews Gone from All of Israel
(National Post-Canada) Robert Fulford - The editors of the student newspaper at McGill University have announced: "The McGill Daily maintains an editorial line of not publishing pieces which promote a Zionist world view, or any other ideology which we consider to be oppressive." In other words, McGill student journalists can comment on Israeli affairs only if what they write is negative. Israel is the closest thing to a Western-style democracy in the Middle East. It has flaws, like all countries, but its freedoms (speech, trade, elections, independent judges) make it unique in the region. The settlements are on land captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967. Yet in 1964, when the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded, its aim was to eliminate Israel through armed struggle - before the settlements existed. The truth is that Palestinians want the Jews gone from the whole place.