The Silence of Elie Wiesel: How to be a Good
Victim
By M. SHAHID ALAM
"Captain Gordon Pim stated in his speech that it was a philanthropic principle to kill natives; there was, he said, "mercy in a massacre."
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate the Brutes (1996)
At last Mr. Elie Wiesel has spoken of the 'dispossessed' in Palestine. It is
ap-propriate that he should do so; that is what the world has long come to
expect of him. A holocaust survivor and Peace Laureate, Mr. Wiesel has
dedicated his life to preventing another holocaust, acting on the conviction
that "...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all..."
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Why I sympathize with the Palestinians
By Alick Cameron
Introduction:
These are the observations and analyses of a British doctor who was serving in Palestine as the 'nakba' (catastrophe) emerged. Dr Alick Cameron MB ChB MD DO MRCGP DHMSA qualified from Edinburgh University in 1946 and spent most of his medical life as a general practitioner in Britain. ~ David Halpin. |