Written byRichard Millett
Last night at SOAS in London another journalist came to the rescue of Israelis when Donald Macintyre – contributor to the Guardian and The Independent’s former Jerusalem correspondent – said he wanted his new book Gaza: Preparing for Dawn to be translated into Hebrew. He said that while Israeli intelligence has a good idea about the situation in Gaza “the Israeli public” didn’t which was made worse by Israeli journalists being banned from Gaza in 2006.
This reminds me of Tariq Ali’s “The end of Israel would benefit all Israelis.” Thank goodness for these wise men who can help the Israeli people!
Maybe Macintyre is unaware that Israelis have access to the internet and even have TV and radio.
He was speaking to the London Middle East Institute as well as the Centre for Palestine Studies, which are both based at SOAS.
He said…
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