LETTER: Israelis the perpetrators
That Israel is an apartheid state was formally established by the 2018 Nation State law
Martin Behr’s complaint that innocent Israelis are the victims of Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza raises the reality that it is actually the Israelis who are the perpetrators instead of the victims of the century-long Palestinian tragedy (“The Right To Resist Vs The Right To Exist”, May 18). Months before their unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) in May 1948, Israelis, colluding with the British, methodically destroyed hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns and dispossessed their inhabitants of the land. By the time Arab armies intervened — only after that UDI and again colluding with the British-led Jordanian army, which annexed the West Bank —it was already too late. Jewish resistance against the Nazis in Warsaw is universally applauded. It is past time SA’s Jewish community acknowledged the parallels between Nazi atrocities in Europe during the 1940s and the Nakba in 1947/1948 and current Israeli government’s atrocities against Palestinians. On the apartheid wall a...
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