Jewish peace winner attacks Israel

[vierundzwanzig]

Monday 01 September 2003, 23:34 Makka Time, 20:34 GMT

Jewish historian Reuven Moskovitz, who was awarded a prestigious peace prize, fired a broadside at Israel during his acceptance speech.

The outspoken award winner used the glittering occasion to launch an attack on Israel's policies which have caused misery for millions of Palestinians.

And he called on Europe to exert pressure on Ariel Sharon to stop the persecution of Palestinians.

"All Israel's governing politicians have transformed the lives of the Palestinian people into an intolerable hell with their sanctions and expulsions," he said at Monday’s award ceremony.

Germany's Aachen Peace Prize was also won by Palestinian-born activist Nabila Espanioly, but it was Moskovitz who stole the show.

http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/News/ArabWorld/Israeli+and+Palestinian+share+peace+prize.htm

[Jim Sagle]

1. Moskoshitz is a whiner and a weiner,

and this thread ain't nuthin' but shit.

[Jackie97]

2. The Jewish version of Michael Moore......

You hate that, don't you?

[Turbulence]

3. and that is bad because?

[Jackie97]

12. I didn't say it was bad....

In fact, I was suggesting the opposite by saying he was the Jewish version of Michael Moore.

[chapter32]

8. "this thread ain't nuthin' but shit"

Thanks for sharing your views with us. It was very informative.

[Fight_n_back]

4. Good for him

if there was more the other side perhaps the child murder would stop.

[Karmadillo]

5. Here's a very brief bio of Moskovitz.

http://www.aachener-friedenspreis.de/english/2003/moskovitz-espanioly.html

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Dr. Reuven Moskovitz was born in 1928 in the Schtetl Frumsiaca in the northern part of Romania. In spite of persecution and expulsion, he survived the Holocaust and emigrated to Palestine in 1947, where he became a co-founder of the Kibbuz Misgav-Am situated on the Lebanese border. After studying history and Hebrew literature at the University of Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he taught history.

For almost 40 years, he has been warning against the danger of escalating terror and counterterror in the Middle East. He founded or co-founded several organisations in Israel which are doing practical peace work up to this day. So he is for example a co-founder of the peace village Neve Shalom / Wahat al Salam in Israel founded in 1972, where he also lived. Israeli Jews and Palestinians are living together with equal rights in this village, where they have a bilingual primary school (Hebrew and Arabic are equally spoken as official languages) and a peace school, where young Jewish and Palestinian Israelis often meet for the first time and use their joint seminar work for learning and practicing how to peacefully live together.

[Forkboy]

6. Well I can why Jim hates him

he's a man of peace.

[Tinoire]

7. Excellent. For once I agree with Yang.

We need more like him on both sides....

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[Tinoire]

10. Ah... Astute point

Sadly, your observation is no surprise. This is what happens when you don't spend enough time down here- you mistakenly give people the benefit of the doubt hoping things might have changed...

[Fight_n_back]

11. Really?

Have you seen the posts of mine where I applaud the Palestinain dissident movement and wish for it to gain a foothold? Have you seen the many links I have provided of Israeli/Palestinian cooperative peace groups?

I didn't think so. STSOOMA