Ik kreeg net van Omar Barghouti dit bericht: ''Dear all,
I just received the following message directly from the distinguished and courageous British writer and art critic, John Berger.
He requested for it to be publicized:
"We are now spectators of the latest - and perhaps penultimate - chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. About the complexities of this tragic conflict billions of words have been pronounced, defending one side or the other.
Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential calculation, which was always covertly there, behind this conflict, has been blatantly revealed. The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a hundred Palestinians. One Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives.
This is what the Israeli State and the world media more or less - with marginal questioning - mindlessly repeat. And this claim, which has accompanied and justified the longest Occupation of foreign territories in 20th C. European history, is viscerally racist. That the Jewish people should accept this, that the world should concur, that the Palestinians should submit to it - is one of history's ironic jokes. There's no laughter anywhere. We can, however, refute it, more and more vocally.
Let's do so."
John Berger
27 December 2008
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It is crucial to note that, two years ago, John Berger had mobilized dozens of prominent artists and writers worldwide to endorse the Palestinian call for an institutional cultural boycott of Israel: http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=415_0_1_0_C
I just received the following message directly from the distinguished and courageous British writer and art critic, John Berger.
He requested for it to be publicized:
"We are now spectators of the latest - and perhaps penultimate - chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. About the complexities of this tragic conflict billions of words have been pronounced, defending one side or the other.
Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential calculation, which was always covertly there, behind this conflict, has been blatantly revealed. The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a hundred Palestinians. One Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives.
This is what the Israeli State and the world media more or less - with marginal questioning - mindlessly repeat. And this claim, which has accompanied and justified the longest Occupation of foreign territories in 20th C. European history, is viscerally racist. That the Jewish people should accept this, that the world should concur, that the Palestinians should submit to it - is one of history's ironic jokes. There's no laughter anywhere. We can, however, refute it, more and more vocally.
Let's do so."
John Berger
27 December 2008
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It is crucial to note that, two years ago, John Berger had mobilized dozens of prominent artists and writers worldwide to endorse the Palestinian call for an institutional cultural boycott of Israel: http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=415_0_1_0_C
Omar'
John Berger, wiens joodse voorouders uit Polen, Galicië en het Oostenrijks-Hongaarse Rijk kwamen, schreef: ‘En hier identificeer ik mijzelf zonder te aarzelen met de rechtvaardige zaak en de pijn van degenen die de staat Israël (en neven van mij) veroorzaken in een mate die tragisch totalitair is.’ De Britse schrijver laat weten dat hij als kosmopoliet en humanist afstand doet van zijn ‘Recht op Terugkeer’, dat het elementaire recht van de Palestijnen onvermijdelijk heeft vernietigd.
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