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SATURDAY marks the two-year anniversary of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. During the past two years, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has reported the following...
REFERRING to intifada statistics for shock value, out of historical context, would be irresponsible--if only the context were different. In the past, Israeli Jews might have been able to justify the occupation by referring to Palestinian refusal to accept a partition of Palestine and to Israeli military vulnerability. But we can no longer fixate upon the past by refusing to acknowledge a new historical reality, one in which the Palestinians are willing to live in a state alongside Israel and Israel can negotiate from a position of power. The Palestinian National Council has declared the former; numerous Israeli military...
Larew then goes on to attack Professer Dershowitz for intellectual inconsistancy. I'm not sure of the exact laws, but this highly respected "Zealot" might be able to sue Larew for libel. I have been following Dershowitz's articles and speeches since the start of the intifada, and I have never seen him defend the curtailment of civil liberties in Israel. In a recent speech to AIPAC, he stated the following...
...Palestinian uprising known as the intifada, which began in December 1987, has changed the attitudes of both Palestinians and Israelis toward a separate Palestine...
...intifada] is deepening its roots in the society," said Aruri. "The intifada is a way of life for all of the people in the Occupied Territories...