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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
UN must resolve against Syria
Syrian security forces on the weekend shot and killed several participants in a funeral procession for murdered protesters. The resolutions submitted to the UN Security Council must be adopted, write a group of authors and artists in an appeal published by the left-liberal daily Libération: "Since the spring the demonstrators in Daraa, Homs, Al-Qamishli, Banias, and Latakia have been paying with their lives, massacred by the army, secret service and militias. But they have not ceded to the terror, and must be admired for their courage. The demonstrators bury their dead and resume their protests the next day. All this is admirable. All this is monstrous. All this is happening behind closed doors. The borders are hermetically sealed. Humanitarian organisations and the international press have been banished from the country. Silence please! There's killing going on. All of this, dear diplomats, you know better than anyone. ... It would be a tragedy and morally unacceptable if, for fear of a veto or an abstention from one or the other among you, this resolution were to end up in the wastepaper basket."
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Amos Oz on Europe in the Arab-Israeli conflict
In his speech of thanks on receiving Spain's Prince of Asturias Award, Israeli author Amos Oz urged Europeans to adopt a more differentiated view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. "While the Arabs perceive the Israelis as modern-day crusaders and Israel as an outpost of European colonialism, many Israelis see the Arabs as the reincarnation of the old oppressors, pogrom leaders and Nazis. This situation puts Europeans in a position of special responsibility for resolving the Middle East conflict. Instead of blaming one side or the other, Europeans should treat both sides with empathy and understanding and offer them help. You must stop deciding whether you're pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian and instead decide in favour of peace."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Europe, » Middle East
Israel without Sharon
Israeli author and peace activist Amos Oz describes Ariel Sharon's transformation and ommissions in an article that has been published in several daylies. "For all those decades I resented him. He symbolised for me everything I could not stand about my country: violent self-righteousness, a mixture of brutality and self-pity, insatiable greed for land and a mystical religious phraseology that, coming from a secular hedonistic soldier, always struck me as hypocritical." And then two years ago, when Sharon started to speak about "two states for the two nations", it's like a kind of "mysterious metamorphosis" occured. Sharon had just two years left to try to correct the mistakes of the 35 past years. "He never really sat down with the Palestinians to try to talk with them the way one neighbour speaks to the other neighbour."
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