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Yoseph Haddad, a 39-year old Arab-Israeli citizen and journalist, well-known throughout Israel, spoke recently before the Austrian Parliament about the Israel that I know as a liberal Zionist, and about the distortions by the European media and many on the American far left about Hamas’s ideology, nature and intentions vis a vis Israel. His 15-minute speech (see You-Tube link below) is a must-listen address by an Israeli-Arab who understands what this awful war is really all about and about the standing of Israeli Arabs today in Israeli society, however imperfect for Israeli-Arab citizens. The situation in the West Bank for Palestinians, however, is very different as they live under a military administration and near violent Israeli settlers and growing Palestinian terrorism.
When the dust of this war settles, when Israel and the Palestinian Authority elect new political leadership with vision and a willingness to create a path to peace and some kind of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the help of a wise and strong American President, perhaps there will emerge the will between Israelis and Palestinians actually to make peace.
Listen here and share this blog and YouTube with those you believe will be moved by Yoseph Haddad and his clear moral compass in these difficult and painful times.
https://youtu.be/S1aOao4BNXE?si=sGcP03GEdPyZu63d
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Hi John, I hope you’re well.
I can see how it’s compelling to embrace Haddad and his message but it’s also worth noting that a majority of Palestinian citizens of Israel reject his stance, not for the idea that Palestinians and Jews can live together within the green line but for his dismissal of separate identity if Palestinian citizens of Israel and all the ways in which they’re made second class citizens (of which you are of course aware).
its not accidental that the hasbara apparatus gives him a bear hug. That alone should raise a flag.
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