[news] The Cost of Zionism

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by Jon Elmer and Uri Avnery; fromoccupiedpalestine.org; March 07, 2004   
Jon Elmer: Israel's raison d'etre is to be a national safe haven for Jews of 
the world, yet we know now that Israel is the most dangerous place in the world 
for a Jew to live. Elsewhere you have written that Israel is a breeding ground 
for anti-Semitism internationally. How has Israel helped or hindered the 
security of Jews, both within Israel and internationally? Uri Avnery: There is 
a lot of irony in this: One of the reasons for setting up the State of Israel 
was to create a safe haven for the Jews of the world after the Holocaust, one 
place the Jews would be safe. But what actually happened - and it has been said 
before me by the late professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz - is that the one place in 
the world where the Jews are in danger is Israel. They are in danger of 
annihilation in the end, because if this war goes on, eventually weapons of 
mass destruction will be employed in the war between us and the Arabs.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/13/01442/7240