AsiaNews: Yehuda Shaul, co-founder of ‘Breaking the Silence,’ an organisation of Israeli soldiers and veterans who denounce Israeli violence in the occupied territories, agrees.
“Anyone who thinks that Israel can indefinitely control Palestinians by force suffers from [. . .] blindness. And whoever fails to understand the connection between this ongoing control and the violence and fear that have returned to our hearts and streets in recent weeks, could lead us toward more severe disaster than that which we are already experiencing,” Shaul wrote in an opinion piece published by The Jewish Week on 19 October 2015.
“Soldiers, like me, are now being sent to display the uncompromising force of Israel and the IDF to Palestinians. Even if this volatile tactic succeeds in quelling the violence for the time being, in the absence of radical changes, it will soon return. Periodic rounds of violence are an inseparable part of the Israeli right’s one-state vision, represented by Shaked. In order to prevent the next round of violence, in the name of our collective future in the region, we must acknowledge our leadership’s failures, and demand that we work toward ending the occupation once and for all.” Full report is here.
