PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE
WRITING this weekend, 21 years ago in the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Ahram, prolific Palestinian author Edward Said describes the horrendous conditions in which Palestinians live.
Said wrote: “The Palestinian territories are witnessing the onset of a mass famine; there is a health crisis of catastrophic proportions; there is a civilian death toll that totals at least a dozen to 20 people a week; the economy has collapsed; hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are unable to work, study or move about as curfews and at least 300 barricades
