A One-Sided House Hearing Against Palestinian Reconciliation

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/openzion.html

One year ago, House Republicans held a hearing on contraception—an issue which greatly impacts the lives of America’s women—and failed to invite a single woman to testify. Instead, all of the panelists were men from conservative religious organizations, which so upset House Democrats that they staged a walk out in protest. This morning, the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa decided to apply the same approach to the Palestinians, holding a hearing titled “The Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Threatening Peace Prospects” without inviting a single Palestinian.