Interview met Avnery

Interessant interview met Israëlische vredesactivist Uri Avnery, hier vaak geciteerd. Hamas zijn geen monsters, zegt hij. Vooral zijn antwoord op de vraag of Hamas ´het geweld af moet zweren en de staat Israel erkennen´ zijn ook voor ons van belang.
In het engels. Interview door Tom Segev.

‘I don’t consider them monsters’
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As the Hamas team laughs

By Gideon Levy, Haaretz

The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister’s advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory. Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weissglas, as usual, provided the punch line: “It’s like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won’t die,” the advisor joked, and the participants reportedly rolled with laughter. And, indeed, why not break into laughter and relax when hearing such a successful joke? If Weissglas tells the joke to his friend Condoleezza Rice, she would surely laugh too.
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