‘Gaza was an open-air prison. Now it is an open-air graveyard’
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Before you can ethnically cleanse or commit genocide you first have to dehumanise. That is what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
So explains Prof Avi Shlaim in an interview for the Irish Times with Lisa Marlowe about the war on Gaza.
We also link to a panel discussion held on 30th October 2023, organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, with Tayab Ali, Daniel Levy, Wadah Khanfar, Yasmine Ahmad and Avi Shlaim.
RK
This article was originally published by the Irish Times on Thu 2 Nov 2023. Read the original here.
'Gaza was an open-air prison. Now it is an open-air graveyard'
Worldview: Israeli leaders are demonising the Palestinian people, which is a precursor to ethnic cleansing and genocide, believes a British-Israeli historian and authority on Arab-Israeli conflict
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This is brilliant. Daniel Levy’s contribution is remarkable.
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He is so thoughtful, insightful and so passionately humane.
Wonderful
Also linked to superb talk by Avi Shlaim, who explains quietly and compellingly the facts that everyone needs to know and so few people get to hear.