Israeli murderer of Palestinians struggles for Tibetan freedom

martyn

18 years ago

Gideon Levy in Haaretz

The president of the Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, the psychologist Nahi Alon was involved in the murder of two Palestinians in Gaza in 1967 – as was revealed in Haaretz Magazine last weekend
Citizens of a country that is entirely tainted by the occupation – a national, ongoing project that involves all sectors of the population to some extent, directly or indirectly – cannot wash their hands and fight another occupation, when a half-hour from their homes, horrors no less terrible are taking place for which they have much greater responsibility.
The Dalai Lama received an honorary doctorate at Ben-Gurion University.

In the first years of the Israeli occupation, most Palestinians accepted it submissively, with practically no violence. What did they get as a result? Nothing. The world and Israel cloaked themselves in apathy and callousness. Only when planes started being hijacked in the 1970s did the world begin to notice that a Palestinian problem even existed..
The extent of Israeli repression in the territories is much greater today than Chinese repression in Tibet.
Nowhere in the world today is there a region more besieged and confined than Gaza. And what is the result? The world calls to boycott the occupier in the case of China, while absurdly, with regard to the Palestinians, the world is boycotting the occupied entity, or at least its elected leadership, and not the occupier. This, it seems, has no parallel in history.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is boycotting the Olympic games but paid an official visit to Israel, where she spoke not one word about the shameful conditions in Gaza under Israeli occupation.