Monday, April 27, 2009

Only Piece in Our Time - Go Bro!

Mr Shapira, 29, who belongs to an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation group for ex-combatants, told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he had spoken to visitors about the massacre of villagers at Deir Yassin in Palestine by Jewish militants in April 1948.
"Yad Vashem talks about the Holocaust survivors' arrival in Israel and about creating a refuge here for the world's Jews," he told Haaretz.
"I said there were people who lived on this land and mentioned that there are other traumas that provide other nations with motivation.
"The Holocaust moved us to establish a Jewish state and the Palestinian nation's trauma is moving it to seek self-determination, identity, land and dignity, just as Zionism sought these things," he said.
Estee Yaari told the BBC by phone that Yad Vashem employed Israelis from across the political spectrum and the same restrictions apply to anyone introducing their personal political perspectives during their tours.
"Discussions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are not appropriate during an educational guiding," she said.
Yad Vashem commemorates the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II, and include a display about the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 where a majority of Holocaust survivors made new homes.

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