Sonja Karkar is founder and president of the Melbourne-based Women for Palestine, cofounder of Australians for Palestine (AFP), editor of AFP News, publishes extensively about the plight of the Palestinians, and maintains websites dedicated to telling the world about Palestine and the Nakba (see: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ).
Sonja Karkar on the ethnic cleansing of the land of Palestine [now 90% ] (2010) “The agonizing pain of loss felt by Palestinians for their ravaged land is not expressed in the statistics. Only those who have suffered the same cruel violations or those who seek to protect and preserve the delicate balance of the world’s environment can understand what it means for a people to be robbed of their land. International law, although on their side, remains ineffective, as no world government, not even the United Nations, is prepared to pressure Israel to stop its illegal collective punishment of the entire Palestinian population” [1].
[1]. Sonja Karkar, “The olive trees fop Palestine weep”, Chapter 5 in “The Plight of the Palestinians. A long history of destruction”, edited by William Cook (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010) (for review see Gideon Polya, “New book: “The Plight of the Palestinians. A long history of destruction””, MWC News, 25 July 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ).