Quote of the Week: Elisheva Michaeli
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2-2-2010
"In 1948 I was nineteen years old, with a five-month old baby, when a soldier knocked on the door and told me that I had just become a widow. Since then, Independence Day is for me a day of mourning. I lost my husband in the war, and for fifty years I have been waiting for things to get better.
I had a moment of hope after Oslo, but my hope was murdered. Since then the sands have been running out for me, and now it is over. For me, it is finished. I was born here, I have become an army widow here, I went through all the wars and crises, always believing that one day it will become better. For me, this business called the state of Israel is finished. I am too old to continue waiting.
... I can't bear to see it anymore, the injustice that is done to the Arabs, to the Bedouins. All kinds of scum coming from America and as soon as they get off the plane taking over lands in the territories and claiming them for their own. And they do it in full daylight, with the backing of the government. The army and police do nothing to stop them. Stop them? The army and police are helping them in every way. I can't do anything to change it. I can only go away and let the the whole lot go to hell without me.'
-- from "It is No Longer My Country"; an interview with Israeli actress Elisheva Michaeli, published in Yediot Ahronot, 24 July 1998. (via The Other Israel).
Photo: An Israeli settler tosses wine over a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron. (By Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times).
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