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- The Israeli Wall Imprisoning the Population of Gaza and the West Bank
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- “I think what’s happening here is a desecration of God’s name…the sacred
nature of God’s image, which is found in every human being regardless of
what religion or nationality they belong to, has been totally defaced.”
- Rabbi Arik Ashermann
- Rabbis for Human Rights
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- “So why feel disheartened? Because the calm Sharon has achieved is
one-sided—enforced by military might, without interest in fair
solutions. Because I know that
Israeli soldiers are killing people on the other side of the wall—out of
sight, out of mind—with regularity.
(Two hundred Palestinians have been killed in the past four
months, many of them civilians blow away by panicky teenage soldiers.) Because Sharon plans to withdraw from
Gaza only to focus on his real goal: the permanent occupation of most of
the West Bank. Because the Bush
administration, rather than lean on Sharon to stop expanding Jewish
settlements, has given these obstacles to peace its blessing.”
- Joshua Hammer (Newsweek, 9/6/04, p. 54)
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- “We have to understand from the beginning that Israel never, ever, ever,
ever recognized that there is a Palestinian people. It never said there’s a Palestinian
people that have rights to self-determination, that have legitimate
claims to the lands, even a people that has a distinct identity or a
character or a culture. Nothing!”
- Jeff Halper
- Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions
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- “I hate to say this as an Israeli, but in some ways Israel is kind of a
rogue state in that it’s one of the only countries—or the only
country—in the world that has no borders and it doesn’t want borders
because not having borders gives the flexibility to claim more land,
demolish more houses, take over with settlements, expand your
control. It’s an expanding entity
that does not accept human rights and international law as a basis for
relations with its neighbors.”
- Jeff Halper
- Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions
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- “Hopefully, somewhere deep inside, every Jew of conscience know
that this was no war; that this was not G-d's restitution of the holy
land to it's rightful owners. We know that a human atrocity was
and continues to be perpetuated against an innocent people who couldn't
come up with the arms and money to defend themselves against the western
powers bent upon their demise as a people. We cannot continue to
say, ‘But what were we to do?’ Zionism is not synonymous with
Judaism.”
- Judith Stone, Jewish mother and grandmother, granddaughter of Jews
murdered in the Russian pogroms
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Notes
