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Quote by: Nono "On the fifth day of the war, just after our army had conquered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, I wrote an open letter to Levy Eshkol, proposing that he seize the historic opportunity and offer the Palestinian people the chance to establish a state of their own. I had advocated this idea since 1949, but I was convinced that this moment, with the whole region in a state of shock, was the right time to make peace with the Palestinians by making them an historic offer."
1967: A Personal Testimony (by Uri Avnery) - Media Monitors Network (MMN)
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Yeah, yeah, and what would Jesus do? I'm sure, in a perfect world, it would have been a wonderful thing to do, and who knows, maybe the Palestinians would even have taken the opportunity to make peace and leave the path they were on, although I doubt it. 20/20 hindsight is always impressive.
But I somehow find it difficult to greatly fault the victims of an intended war of annihilation for their failure to be magnanimous enough with their attackers after successfully defending themselves.
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Quote by: Nono Believe it or not, I prefer to talk here about the poor Israelis. Through their arrogant and shortsighted policies they've squeezed themselves into a cage with the Palestinians that they now seem unable to get out of.
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Certainly true to a large degree, but, to my mind, not to the
largest degree, and there I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. The fact is they've been in a sh!tstorm since the day they came into being. The Israelis are not going to change that, nor should they.
And if anyone's reaping the whirlwind, it's the PLO and Hamas following Palestinians, as all the apologists here keeping whining. But hey, you reap what you sow.
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