Palestinians have been condemned to live in slums
A true citizen of Israel must ask himself why the Palestinians have been condemned to live in slums and accept lower standards of education and medical care.
By Daniel Barenboim
BERLIN— I have often made the statement that the destinies of the Israeli and Palestinian people are inextricably linked and that there is no military solution to the conflict. My recent acceptance of Palestinian nationality has given me the opportunity to demonstrate this more tangibly.
When my family moved to Israel from Argentina in the 1950s, one of my parents' intentions was to spare me the experience of growing up as part of a minority—a Jewish minority. They wanted to me to grow up as part of a majority—a Jewish majority.
The tragedy of this is that my generation, despite having been educated in a society whose positive aspects and human values have greatly enriched my thinking, ignored the existence of a minority within Israel – a non-Jewish minority – which had been the majority in the whole of Palestine until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Part of the non-Jewish population remained in Israel, and other parts left out of fear or were forcefully displaced.
Source: Aljazeera.com
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