4 Naomi: Jerusalem, 1981 (pp. 59-77
"We Palestinians decided to stay put despite all the efforts of the occupiers to make life difficult for us in order to encourage us to leave." (pp. 60-61)
"...I was investigating the illegal ways in which the settlers had registered a local company to circumvent prevailing Jordanian law prohibiting the sale of land to foreigners without permission from a local authority. Meanwhile, messianic rabbis, such as Zvi Yehuda Kook, were claiming that the settlement of the land was by divine command. I remember wondering what could be so divine about a process that was preceded by stealth and illegality." (pp. 61-62)
"God moves in a mysterious way..."
"Israel reneged on the promise it had made to US president Jimmy Carter not to build more Jewish settlements in the West Bank." (p. 63)
No government has a monopoly on breaking promises. I live in Britain which has been called "Perfidious Albion."
A rabbi sang, "Thus may all Israel's enemies perish," when an Arab mayor lost his legs because a settler terrorist group planted a bomb in his car. (pp. 63-64)
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