Israeli intellectuals back Palestinian statehood in Tel Aviv rally

[LeftishBrit]

Hundreds of Israeli intellectuals and academicians voiced their support of Palestinian statehood in a Tel Aviv rally on Thursday, urging PA President Mahmoud Abbas to forge ahead with his UN bid despite U.S. resistance.

About 300 people attended the event outside of Tel Aviv's Independence Hall, which included speeches from former Labor MK Yael Dayan, writer and initiator Sefi Rachlevsky, 1968 student protest leader Daniel Cohn Bendit, Prof. David Harel, Prof. Yosef Agassi, Tal Harris from One Voice and others....




Yael Dayan, speaking at the Tel Aviv event, said it was a disgrace that Israel was calling the Palestinian move a unilateral one, asking: "Isn't the occupation unilateral?"



http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-intellectuals-back-palestinian-statehood-in-tel-aviv-rally-1.386215

[Kolesar]

1. Error: You can't recommend threads from this forum

I will bear witness then.

[Violet_Crumble]

2. Good on them...

The incessant use of the word 'unilateral' to describe a bid for UN membership and international recognition of a new state is probably the most irksome and incorrect use of a tem next to 'failed state'...

Yael Dayan is spot on in saying "Are both sides occupying? To both sides have similar infrastructures? Everything we have, the Palestinians don’t have. The Palestinians deserve to have everything we do."

[Jefferson23]

3. +1 @ ... Isn't the occupation unilateral?" n/t