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Rather than peace, the Israelis want peace and quiet. And they really don’t care what happens to the Palestinians. So as long as the Israel army with it walls can bring a false quiet to the area then that’s fine for the Israelis and so we’re not going to get the Israeli public to rise up itself and demand an end to the occupation…

 

Jeff Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. Originally from Minnesota (US), he has lived in Israel since 1973. Jeff has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and is the author of the book Between Redemption and Revival: the Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the nineteenth century.

Halper gave this speech at the 2nd Bil’in International Nonviolence Conference, 19 April 2007.

See also, Time is Running Out.

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