“I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people. I believe there is no way around this: We have to have a solution based on two national states, which will hopefully live and grow together and establish a relationship between them in something like a European Union.” PeopleWayBelieveTwoStatesTogetherI BelieveGrowsSolutionsConsciousImportanceUnionsHopefullyNationalismPalestinianEuropean UnionAcknowledgment Author:Uri Avnery
“In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent of this country of Palestine. What was left to the Arabs was 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.” WayWarCountryStatesLeftPercentWestIsraelPalestineGazaGaza Strip Author:Uri Avnery
“There is the Jewish Agency, which gets a lot of money from the United States, from American Jews, whose sole job it is to create settlements. It enlists people all over the world - especially in Russia, and in the United States, by the way - to come and settle in the Occupied Territories as a kind of religious statement, a kind of nationalist statement: "This is a country given to us by God." A lot of Israelis who do not believe in God believe that God has given us this country.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveKindCountryStatesJobsGivenReligiousUnitedUnited StatesJewRussiaStatementsSettlingAgencyBelieve In GodTerritorySoleLots Of MoneySettlement Author:Uri Avnery
“You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?” PeopleWayDoeFeelingsAverageIsraelTraumaLegacyHolocaustPalestinian Author:Uri Avnery
