Writing's On The Wall

Few things are as monumentally ugly.....cutting through towns and fields, cleaving families from their homes, farmers from their land.
-- TIME Magazine, June 1, 2009, on Israel's Apartheid Wall

South African anti-apartheid activist, and respected religious scholar, Farid Esack, has written a letter to Palestinians which is being painted in 60-cm high letters along the wall near Ramallah. He says:

In your land, we are seeing something far more brutal, relentless and inhuman than what we have ever seen under apartheid.

and

I am astonished at how ordinarily decent people whose hearts are otherwise “in the right place” beat about the bush when it comes to Israel and the dispossession and suffering of the Palestinians. Do both parties deserve an “equal hearing” in a situation of domestic violence – wherein a woman is beaten up by a male who was abused by his father some time ago – because “he,” too, is a “victim?”

Read the full letter. It's one of the most heartfelt, moral, cogent pleas I've come across for Israelis, and supporters of Israel, to reclaim their humanity from the killing machine of the Israeli state.

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