Tracking the steady deletion of the Palestinians - will Greater Israel be achieved?

[Idaho]

Oh an Israel Palestine bunfight! How we love them. So when do we predict that Greater Israel will become a reality?

Palestinian Home Demolitions Increase

"Wood-fired barbecue was our speciality. Delicious," says Ramzi Kasiyah as he picks his way gingerly over a pile of rubble and twisted metal. Broken glass crackles under his feet."We had a beautiful terrace. Now I have nothing."

Up until a few weeks ago Ramzi was the proud owner of the Palestinian Al Mukhrur restaurant just outside Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Now he presides over what looks like a bomb site, a grey scar in a beautiful, small valley, still lush from the winter's rains. At the beginning of May, Israeli forces flattened the restaurant. Ramzi shows me a mobile phone video of huge yellow diggers smashing through the roof, as he and his staff looked on helplessly "12 years' work was gone in 5 minutes," he says.

His adjacent house where he lives with his wife and children is still standing. He says the Israelis told him they would be back to demolish that within the month.