Uri Avnery comments on the bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem:
From
the utterances of the commentators this week, one can gather that they
cannot even imagine the anger that accumulates in the mind of a young
Arab in Jerusalem throughout the years of humiliation, harassment,
discrimination and helplessness. It is easier and more amusing to go
into pornographic descriptions of the 72 virgins waiting for the
martyrs in the Muslim paradise – what they do with them, how they do it
to them, who has enough energy for them all.
One
of the main contributing factors for the stirring up of hatred is the
demolition of “illegal” homes of Arab residents, who are quite unable
to build “legally”….
[There is] one, clear
solution: to turn East Jerusalem into the capital of the State of
Palestine, to enable its inhabitants to set up their own municipality,
while keeping the whole city as an urban entity united under one
super-municipality in which the Arabs will be equal to the Jews. I am
glad that during his visit with us this week, Barack Obama repeated
almost word for word this plan, which Gush Shalom published some ten
years ago in cooperation with Feisal Husseini, the late leader of the
Jerusalem Arab community…
