An Israeli liberal:
Only a few acknowledged that the father’s story of return, redemption and liberation was also a story of conquest, displacement, oppression and death.
Yaron Ezrahi, Rubber Bullets, Power and Conscience in Modern Israel, 1996
I would say there is probably a mistranslation. Instead of ‘Only a few’ I think the author meant ‘Only few’.
Related – from my radio show archive
- Occupied Minds - A Journey through the Israeli Psyche (Pluto Books, 2006). An interview with Arthur Neslen
- The impracticality of a two-state solution. Overcoming Zionism: an interview with Joel Kovel
- The Colonial Drama of Israel-Palestine
- The Myths of Zionism – an interview with John Rose in 2008
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