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Significant support for Palestinians

By Stuart Rees - posted Tuesday, 3 November 2015


Palestinians' violence is born of despair. Their loss of homes, land and lives is a daily occurrence, so too is the deprivation of electricity and water, the threatened deprivation of holy sites and the continued arrests and imprisonment of thousands without charge, yet western media outlets depict events as though nothing warrants the violence coming from Palestinians.

Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, journalist Amira Hass, says there is no respite for the Palestinian people because the Israeli regime never stops improving its methods to destroy, fragment, repress, humiliate, disinherit, kill, impoverish, expel or make life unbearable.

In the same newspaper, journalist Gideon Levy writes that Israel's military dictatorship in one part of its territory is one of the most brutal regimes in existence today.

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To support Israeli vigilantes' hatred of Palestinians and apparently to provide justification for their violence, Prime Minister Netanyahu has attempted to distort history by claiming that the grand Mufti of Jerusalem not Hitler was the architect of the Holocaust.

In my recent meetings with peace activists in Israel, with families and with university students in Gaza and with Palestinian politicians and other leaders in West Bank towns, everyone said that support for a world- wide BDS movement provided the only hope to end the occupation and to give Palestinians a chance to realize their human rights.

The APAN resolution is a protest against massive injustices. It shows a non-violent way to bring a decades long occupation to an end so that Palestinians and Israelis might build a future characterized by the values and language of human rights and not by the bloody deeds of warfare.

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Stuart Rees is Professor Emeritus of the University of Sydney and Founder of the Sydney Peace Foundation. He is the former Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation (1998-2011) and of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (1988-2008), and a Professor of Social Work (1978-2000) at the University of Sydney.

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