Quote of the day #2:

"Today these words sound standard. But at the time, they were shocking."
--Public opinion analyst Dahlia Scheindlin examines the development of opposition to Israel's occupation and noted that "what the Left says has often sounded radical, shocking, or frightening at first — but some of its core concepts go mainstream over the years," such as in a letter signed in 1978 by several hundred IDF officers protesting government policy for “perpetuating its rule over a million Arabs,” which they argued “could harm the Jewish-democratic character of the state" - and which became a touchstone moment in the formation of Peace Now.*

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