️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on Israeli attitudes toward Palestinians

️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on Israeli attitudes toward Palestinians Israeli society has surrounded itself with shields, walls, not only physical but also mental. I will simply cite three principles that make it easy for us Israelis to live in this brutal reality. First. Most Israelis, if not all, deeply believe that we are the chosen people. And if we are the chosen people, we have the right to do whatever we want. Second. There have been more brutal occupations in history. There have been longer occupations in history. But never in history has there been an occupation in which the occupier presented himself as a victim. The other day Prof. Falk was talking about this dual strategy of Israel: to be victimized on the one hand and manipulated on the other. Finally, I come to the third set of values that allow us Israelis to live in peace with the occupation. This is perhaps the most important and worst of them all. And that is the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians. Because if they are not like us, then human rights are out of the question. And if you scrape every Israeli, that’s where you’ll find it. Almost no one will treat Palestinians as equal human beings, as themselves. After all, how many Israelis have ever tried, even for a moment, to put themselves in the shoes of the Palestinians, for a moment, for one day? InfoDefenseENGLISH InfoDefense Источник: InfoDefenseENGLISH