On Gaza in 1956. UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold wrote an extraordinary private letter to his friend, Israeli PM Ben-Gurion. On Israel’s disproportionate military responses to provocations from Gaza. (1/4)
“You are convinced that acts of (Israeli) retaliation will stop further incidents…. I am convinced they will lead to further incidents… You believe that this way of creating respect for Israel will pave the way for sound co-existence with the Arab people. (2/4)
... I believe that the policy may postpone indefinitely the time for such co-existence”. For 65 years, Israel’s leaders have rejected that advice, launching ever-widening attacks on Gazan civilians, (3/4)
creating ever-deepening cycles of hatred and despair. Yet the more times they choose this route, the more comprehensively they prove Hammarskjold’s wisdom and humanity. And their lack of both. (4/4)
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