{"id":2663,"date":"2020-10-25T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/sam-bahour-palestinians-are-done-conceding"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:28:20","slug":"sam-bahour-palestinians-are-done-conceding","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/sam-bahour-palestinians-are-done-conceding","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bahour: PALESTINIANS ARE DONE CONCEDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4 id=\"5989\" class=\"eh da ei ap cp ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd dh\"><strong class=\"bw\">Palestinians are done conceding<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Only a Palestinian institutional rebirth can end this conflict<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>by Sam Bahour,<\/em> Writer, businessperson, activis<\/strong>t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Western countries, especially European ones, have a track record of failing Palestine and Israel. Since the outset of this Middle East conflict, these powers have used the tremendous leverage they have on only one party - the Palestinians. At times, they punished Palestinians with military might. When that did not work, they added efforts to financially strangulate the Palestinian national liberation movement. When they realised the Palestinians were not going to vanish, they became innovative in their political and diplomatic discourse to divert Palestinians away from restoring what what was forcefully taken from them upon the creation of the state of Israel. At no time in history have Western powers seriously held Israel accountable to get it to change its ways. Instead, they have paved the way for Israeli impunity, all the while funding them, arming them, and covering up for them in the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2664,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2663","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sam Bahour: PALESTINIANS ARE DONE CONCEDING - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/sam-bahour-palestinians-are-done-conceding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sam Bahour: PALESTINIANS ARE DONE CONCEDING - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Palestinians are done conceding Only a Palestinian institutional rebirth can end this conflict by Sam Bahour, Writer, businessperson, activist Western countries, especially European ones, have a track record of failing Palestine and Israel. 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