Miko Peled, The Israeli Generals Son. Seattle. Oct. 1, 2012 The causes of terrorism are not abstract. The fundamental problem is that both Muslims and Jews claim the same land. The answer to this problem is not for Israel to; Illegally bomb Gaza, Institute Zionist apartheid, Create an open prison in Gaza, Institute indiscriminate collective punishment, Execute extra-judicial assassinations, Illegally occupy land in defiance of UN resolutions, Atomise the West Bank with walls and illegal settlements. Such unacceptable and violent injustices simply create more anger. The more that political solutions are frustrated, the more that, equally unacceptable, violence will be the response. The more the West supports these injustices, the more likely the West is to be targeted by violent attacks. I defend the right of Jews to exist peacefully but leaders on both sides have got to look to the future not to the past. Western policies backing fundamentalist zionist atrocities are a recruiting sergeant for fundamentalist Muslim atrocities. The US, EU & Israeli arms industry laughs all the way to the bank. A single, secular state is the sole sustainable solution. Religious extremists on both sides will undoubtedly resist a secular solution but I say; roll on New Jerusalem; place of peace. I recommend this YouTube clip by a one time staunch Zionist called Miko Peled; Miko Peled has described his 2012 book, The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, as an account of how he, the son of an Israeli General, came to realize that the story upon which I was raised ... was a lie. The book, he has said, is based largely on long conversations with his mother, on a thorough reading of everything my dad had ever written, and on material about his fathers career in the Israeli army archives. The book, which has been characterized as part confessional, part cinematic epic and part emotional appeal for different answers to the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum, contains a foreword by Alice Walker.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:37:23 +0000
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