Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U.S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states with Israel as the one exception.
Amira HassLuckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.
Amira HassAs a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.
Amira HassThings happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.
Amira Hass