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Israeli-Palestinian crisis is ‘not a conflict between two equal sides’15/05/2021|6min
Independent Journalist Antony Loewenstein says the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis is “not a conflict between two equal sides” with Israel as the “occupier” and the Palestinians the “occupied”.
“The context has to be seen of where this is coming from, which essentially is not just what’s happening now,” he said.
“I think a lot of the media gets overly focussed on the question of Hamas fires rockets, Israel allegedly fires back.
“This is an occupation … Israel has been occupying Palestinian territory - Gaza in the West Bank - for over 50 years.