Open Letter to President Carter: Sanctions To Stop Slaughter
The significance of this decision has been noted by my dear friend Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “revisionist” (honest) historian and the author of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Though threats to his life (and also the lives of his two sons) caused him to leave Israel and take up a post at Exeter University, he was visiting the Zionist state when Norway’s minister of finance announced the decision to a press conference. The reporting of it by the Israeli media gave Israelis a rare and brief glimpse of reality. Ilan put it this way (my emphasis added): “Today was a unique day in the history of media coverage and discussion in Israel. All the electronic agencies, radio and television alike, discussed the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians and, more importantly, the possible price tag attached to it.”
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