Uri Avnery has been a long-time critic of Israel. He is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom.
He writes in his latest piece "Israel's Most Revolting Law" on CounterPunch:
"The most important sentence written in Israel this week was lost in the general tumult of exciting events."
So what are these words and what context were they said? The words were:
"The State of Israel is at war with the Palestinian people, people against people, collective against collective.”
Read what occasioned these words to be said - read the Avnery piece, in full, here - and as he writers says:
"If we are at war with “the Palestinian people”, this means that every Palestinian, wherever he or she may be, is an enemy. That includes the inhabitants of the occupied territories, the refugees scattered throughout the world as well as the Arab citizens of Israel proper. A mason in Taibeh, Israel, a farmer near Nablus in the West Bank, a policeman of the Palestinian Authority in Jenin, a Hamas fighter in Gaza, a girl in a school in the Mia Mia refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, a naturalized American shopkeeper in New York – “collective against collective”.
He writes in his latest piece "Israel's Most Revolting Law" on CounterPunch:
"The most important sentence written in Israel this week was lost in the general tumult of exciting events."
So what are these words and what context were they said? The words were:
"The State of Israel is at war with the Palestinian people, people against people, collective against collective.”
Read what occasioned these words to be said - read the Avnery piece, in full, here - and as he writers says:
"If we are at war with “the Palestinian people”, this means that every Palestinian, wherever he or she may be, is an enemy. That includes the inhabitants of the occupied territories, the refugees scattered throughout the world as well as the Arab citizens of Israel proper. A mason in Taibeh, Israel, a farmer near Nablus in the West Bank, a policeman of the Palestinian Authority in Jenin, a Hamas fighter in Gaza, a girl in a school in the Mia Mia refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, a naturalized American shopkeeper in New York – “collective against collective”.
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