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Andrew Gilmour
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Executive Director of Berghof Foundation. Fmr UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights. Visiting Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳
May 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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)