Nog eens een ander joods geluid over de illegale bezetting van de West Bank door apartheidsstaat Israël:
Rabbis' visit comes after 50th anniversary of Israel's occupation of West Bank. What hadn’t been planned, though, up was that their trip would coincide with one of the worst crises ever in relations between Israel and the U.S. Jewish community.
Rabbi Stanley Kessler first visited Hebron in 1967, just after the Six-Day War. He returned for a second visit in 1973. This week, at age 94, he came back for his third trip and hardly recognized the city.
“I have difficulty seeing what I’m seeing,” he says, pausing for a moment of reflection after a stroll, on a sweltering day, through what used to be the bustling center of this West Bank city. “On my previous trips, the streets were swarming with people. And now, I didn’t even see one single person.”
Lees het hele artikel:
U.S. Rabbis Just Got a Close-up Look at Occupation in the West Bank - and It’s Not a Pretty Sight
