Sunday, July 25, 2010

Israel turns upon its own | Rachel Shabi

This week's controversial rape conviction of an Arab man highlights a growing intolerance. Israel's liberal left has been warning about this for decades – and now those cautionary words seem like prophesies. Lines of Israeli authors, academics and campaigners have long said that the ugly occupation of the Palestinian people would corrode Israel and derail its democracy. Human rights advocates repeatedly warned that a nation capable of meting out such punishing discrimination to another people would eventually turn on itself. And so it has.
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