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10/24/2003 Entry: "A Palestinian Perspective"
I attended a lecture last evening by Afif Safieh, the Palestinian General Delegate to the UK and the Holy See. (He is effectively the Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority) It perhaps won't surprise regular readers here that though I deplore all violence my sympathies on Israel/Palestine lie with the Palestinian people. It seems to me that they have been systematically abused since the foundation of Israel in 1948. I don't have the time to write a proper summary of the lecture, so let me share what for me was the "quote of the night"
"I believe that Palestine will resurrect. We in Jerusalem have some previous experience of resurrection"
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Yeah, I think the only way you can pretend Israel is in the right is if you are the type that believes that the modern nation of Israel = God's Chosen People.
I don't, and...I don't.
Posted by Jonathan @ 10/24/2003 03:06 PM CST
