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The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry » Topic: Israel http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/israel Just another bbPress community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 06:30:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php Colour on "Israel" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/israel#post-279819 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:46:43 +0000 Colour 279819@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Well, as far as I’m concerned, this article doesn’t deny any of the crimes committed by the Palestinian people. The only thing it says is that Israel isn’t following the human rights law, which is entirely true. tallest44 on "Israel" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/israel#post-279217 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:15:51 +0000 tallest44 279217@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary reddit this The Guardian, Wednesday 30 April 2008 Article history In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasised, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Naqba is to the Palestinians. In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorised the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating. In July 1948, 70,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in Lydda and Ramleh in the heat of the summer with no food or water. Hundreds died. It was known as the Death March. We will not be celebrating. In all, 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. Some 400 villages were wiped off the map. That did not end the ethnic cleansing. Thousands of Palestinians (Israeli citizens) were expelled from the Galilee in 1956. Many thousands more when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Under international law and sanctioned by UN resolution 194, refugees from war have a right to return or compensation. Israel has never accepted that right. We will not be celebrating. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations. We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East. Seymour Alexander Ruth Appleton Steve Arloff Rica Bird Jo Bird Cllr Jonathan Bloch Ilse Boas Prof. Haim Bresheeth Tanya Bronstein Sheila Colman Ruth Clark Sylvia Cohen Judith Cravitz Mike Cushman Angela Dale Ivor Dembina Dr. Linda Edmondson Nancy Elan Liz Elkind Pia Feig Colin Fine Deborah Fink Sylvia Finzi Brian Fisher MBE Frank Fisher Bella Freud Catherine Fried Uri Fruchtmann Stephen Fry WTF What about Palestinian crimes?