[news] Israel's Record is "Not Reassuring"

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"Palestinians are victims, and their rights, security and welfare should be the priority of the international community. Israel has no right to demand security from its victims; it lost that right the moment it breached international law when its tanks rolled onto Palestinian land....Shortly before his untimely death, Palestinian-American Professor Edward Said wrote in Al-Ahram Weekly: 'So far all we hear is that Palestinians must give up violence and condemn terror. Is nothing substantive ever demanded of Israel? Can it go on doing what it has without a thought for the consequences? That is the real question of its existence: Whether it can exist as a state like all others, or must always be above the constraints and duties of all other states in the world today. The record is not reassuring.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/27/18532/6554