Saturday, January 17, 2009

drawing parallel lines in sand

Sir Gerald Kaufman, MP for Gorton in Manchester, who was brought up as an orthodox Jew and Zionist, told MPs: "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town .. a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza."

"The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians."

"We had an IRA bomb in Manchester which destroyed much of the centre - we didn't send troops over to Belfast to murder 1,000 Catholics."

via BBC

1 comment:

Dean said...

"My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers" is such a powerful statement.