Israeli intellectuals for creation of Palestinian state
April 22nd, 2011 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANIJerusalem, Apr 22 (ANI): A group of Israeli left-wing artists and academics attended an event where an actress who lost a leg in a Palestinian attack read out Israeli intellectuals’ declaration of endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state.
To make herself heard, 87-year-old actress, Hanna Maron, shouted out to the huge gathering on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard while reading out the “Declaration of Independence from the Occupation”.
“We are here assembled … to welcome the coming Declaration of Independence of the Palestinian State,” the document said, calling for its creation, alongside Israel, on the basis of what is “known today as the ‘67 borders”, The Telegraph reports.
While Israel’s government said that a peace deal might be reached only through direct talks, Palestinian authorities said they would aim to seek U.N. recognition for statehood in all the territory captured by Israel in a 1967 war.
Peace talks had collapsed last year over the issue of Jewish settlements.
Meanwhile Israel’s culture and sport minister Limor Livnat said that though she respected the Israel Prize laureates who signed the declaration, she did not agree with “their extreme views”.
“This is a group that is acting to spread a wrong message and is causing Israel serious harm internationally,” she added. (ANI)
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