There is indeed dissent in Israel - the Rabbis (I forget the name of
their organisation) who protest the bulldozing of Palestinian houses
and other such crimes, the growing ranks of "refuseniks" - soldiers
who won't serve on the West Bank
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,662629,00.html) and
so on. There are some useful links at the bottom of that story,
including Peacewatch (http://www.ariga.com/peacewatch/) and Bitter
Lemons, an internet mag which started recently to air both
Palestinian and Israeli commentary in the same space.
Best
Alison
>Lawrence,
>
>There are tens of thousands of Israeli intellectuals who are opposed
>to their government's policies of occupation-- and thousands of
>"non-intellectuals", too. That would be an important point to
>remember, lest *all* hope for a reasonable fix to the mess be lost.
>
>Kent
>
>
>>>>One notices the same discrepancies and blindness when
>Israeli intellectuals
> concentrate on their own tragedies and leave out of the equation
>the much
> greater suffering of a dispossessed people without a state, or an
>army, or
> an air force, or a proper leadership, that is, Palestinians whose
>suffering
> at the hands of Israel continues minute by minute, hour by hour.
>This sort
> of moral blindness, this inability to evaluate and weigh the
>comparative
> evidence of sinner and sinned against (to use a moralistic
>language that I
> normally avoid and detest) is very much the order of the day,"
--
Alison Croggon
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