As Ariel Sharon met with the president of the US he was granted a 'green light' to systematically murder the Palestinians, their existence, institutions and authority. President Bush included the Palestinian people 'as a whole' in his criticism which is usually directed against Arafat or the Palestinian Authority. Bush did not fall short of criticizing the new cabinet just hours after it was formed, affirming that it is "…not a cabinet he can trust."

It seems like Ariel Sharon and Bush are interchangeable, for they speak in the same tongue. This American administration is turning Sharon's allegations and unreasonable demands, placed in order to buy the occupiers more time, into American policy. In the Middle East and Europe, people are well aware of Sharon's past and present status as a war criminal, who should be held accountable by international courts of justice.

Israel conducts daily incursions into Palestinian areas, placing a captive Palestinian population under curfew while building fences to separate villages and towns, and implementing their unchallenged apartheid regime. The numbers speak for themselves, for every Israeli killed there has been five Palestinian civilians murdered, keeping in mind that the majority of Israelis are directly or indirectly "military personnel."

The American government has failed to condemn the forth most sophisticated Israeli army for its use of brute military force against Palestinian civilians under occupation, in defiance of international law and UN resolutions 242 and 338. The army is hitting the Palestinian institutions in an effort to completely destroy the future of Palestine or its possible existence as a free state living in peace and prosperity.

Meanwhile, Israel is building yet another illegal settlement on privately owned Palestinian land, while it confiscates more land to build by-pass roads for settlers to travel freely, confiscating the remaining areas that have yet not been occupied. Settlements are setting up physical obstacles to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state, without which there will be neither peace nor security for Israel itself. Building settlements aims to strengthen Israel's settler population in the occupied territories, making it unworkable to reach any just solution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Once again, the Palestinians are left alone to face the music, while justice is blatantly disregarded by the oppressor at the expense of the oppressed. No matter how powerful the pressure is, the Palestinian people have justice on their side, and unbreakable will that will resist occupation in all its forms. When will the international community take up its legal and moral obligation to support justice and combat oppression, racism and occupation?