In Wake Of Deadly Attack, Tel Aviv Mayor Speaks Out Against Israel’s Occupation Of Palestine
Source: Think Progress
“We might be the only country in the world where another nation is under occupation without civil rights,” he said when speaking to Israeli army radio on Thursday. “You can’t hold people in a situation of occupation and hope they’ll reach the conclusion everything is alright.”
“No one has the courage [to find peace with the Palestinians],” he said.
Huldai is certainly not the first leading Israeli or Jewish figure to cite the occupation as an obstacle to peace in the region.
In November 2015, Jewish Reform movement President Rabbi Rick Jacobs said, “Our Reform movement has long opposed Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank. The occupation threatens the very Zionism that we hold dear – the living expression of a Jewish democratic state. It causes pain and hardship to the Palestinians and alienates Israel from friends and allies around the world.”
Yuval Diskin, the former Director of Israel’s internal security force Shin Bet, has also often criticized the Israeli occupation. During the offensive on Gaza in the summer of 2014, Diskin posted a Facebook status blaming the cycle of violence both on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the occupation in general.
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