“Fifty years ago this week, Israelis were euphoric. Our young army had just won the Six Day War and our newly created country in our historic homeland had been spared what we thought was our inevitable death and destruction.
That euphoria was shattered six years later when Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur, and sadly it has never been regained.
As a Kiwi Israeli who divides my time between the two nations, I know it’s easy for people living on the other side of the world to blame Israel for the failure to achieve peace in the Middle East. Such views may arise from ignorance, from guilt, from antisemitism, from extreme political views of both the far Left and the far Right, but most of all from little understanding of the harsh reality of living in a country surrounded by neighbours who want to wipe you off the planet.”
“It is said that when the Palestinians want to have a Palestinian state more than they want to destroy the Jewish State, when they value life more than death, then maybe there will be peace.”
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