A time to protest (Haaretz - Israel News)
- In the eyes of world, the occupation is over, and now we have to reach the same conclusion urgently. We did not return here after two millennia of exile to be drowned in a single state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean with a Palestinian majority and an Israeli minority. We came back here in the wake of Benjamin Zeev (Theodor) Herzl's vision, and we declared our state, in the words of the Declaration of Independence as read out by David Ben-Gurion, because "this right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign state."
The criminals on the West Bank hilltops, the Israeli government and its head, Benjamin Netanyahu, are the new post-Zionists. They are the binational, piggishly capitalist camp that stands opposed to the national camp, which believes the end of the occupation is an Israeli interest, with an agreement or without one. To withdraw from the occupied territories so there will be a Jewish democratic state here. To draw the permanent boundaries and to defend Israel from the Qassams and the rockets, from our side of the fence.
Barack Obama is a true friend of Israel. As such, he told Netanyahu what most of us know in our hearts: End the occupation. The time has come to look after ourselves and to go back to building everything from the beginning again. Close your eyes and think what Israeli society could have been like within the Green Line, if $100 billion had not been burned up in the territories, which we will soon be leaving.
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