Prof. Zeev Sternhell (a pipe bomb was left at his doorstep in 2008): The West’s political elite is not speaking out openly against Israeli colonialism, for fear of encouraging the anti-Semitic monster. But at the universities and in the schools, in the media and on social networks, they are already saying this explicitly: It is untenable that the Jewish past serve as a justification for cruelty in the Palestinian present. And The right wing is settling Jews in the West Bank by virtue of an historical claim whose source is in a divine promise: Does anyone still take seriously the argument that a promise given to our ancestors justifies the denial of the Palestinians’ human rights? Every rational person sees these claims as no more than cynical cover for the desire to annex most of the territories, if not all of them. And As for the Gaza Strip, which is perceived as one big prison, there is nothing left to say. [..] Many people saw the attacks as a violent manifestation of an appalling disregard for human life.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 23:26:46 +0000
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