QUOTES
"I
have spent a great deal of my life during the past 35 years advocating the rights
of the Palestinian people to national self-determination, but I have always tried
to do that with full attention paid to the reality of the Jewish people and what
they suffered by way of persecution and genocide. The paramount thing is that
the struggle for equality in Palestine/Israel should be directed toward a humane
goal, that is, co-existence, and not further suppression and denial.”
I
have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated
to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
I
urge everyone to join in and not leave the field of values, defintions, and cultures
uncontested.
For
the intellectual the task, I believe, is explicitly to universalize the crisis,
to give greater human scope to what a particular race or nation suffered, to associate
that experience with the suffering of others.
Look
at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of
a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made
by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent,
irreversible.
