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“I was not entirely surprised by what I encountered, but it was still profoundly disturbing” … Omer Bartov (photograph: David Degner/The Guardian).

As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel

Als je werkelijk wil weten hoe ‘destructief recht’ werkt en je een inzicht wil krijgen in de gruwel van Gaza momenteel, moet je zoals steeds de zeer verstandige Omer Bartov lezen. Verdoe je tijd dus niet met Grunberg- en Brusselmans-gezever. Lees deze absolute must long read! Hierbij het tweede deel van Bartovs analyse die in augustus in The Guardian verscheen.


 

“I was not entirely surprised by what I encountered, but it was still profoundly disturbing” Omer Bartov (photograph: David Degner/The Guardian).

As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel

Als je werkelijk wil weten hoe ‘destructief recht’ werkt en je een inzicht wil krijgen in de gruwel van Gaza momenteel, moet je zoals steeds de zeer verstandige Omer Bartov lezen. Verdoe je tijd dus niet met Grunberg- en Brusselmans-gezever. Lees deze absolute must long read!
Christophe Busch, directeur Hannah Arendt Instituut
“This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood.”


 

A member of CPT accompanies children to school in Hebron, West Bank (foto: CPT).

Interview with Tarteel Al Junaidi of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron

Following the horrendous attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7th, and the reciprocal violence by the Israeli Defence Force and settlers in the West Bank, we met with Tarteel Al Junaidi, a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams based in Hebron, to find out more about the situation there, and the work her organisation is doing. The interview was conducted by WRI’s Nonviolence Programme worker, Andrew Metheven.