Lucas Koerner, is the Jewish-American that was brutally arrested in Jerusalem in 2011.
He wrote this article before the arrest and it is very interesting. It starts:
"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country … There has been Anti−Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: We have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" — David Ben−Gurion, founding prime minister of Israel.
The rest of the article is at: The dark side of Israeli Independence Day - Op-Ed - Tufts Daily - Tufts University
I wanted to find out what happened to Lucas after the arrest. In an interview he says:
He wrote this article before the arrest and it is very interesting. It starts:
"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country … There has been Anti−Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: We have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" — David Ben−Gurion, founding prime minister of Israel.
The rest of the article is at: The dark side of Israeli Independence Day - Op-Ed - Tufts Daily - Tufts University
I wanted to find out what happened to Lucas after the arrest. In an interview he says:
"The video has reached such a wide audience primarily because of my privileged
position as an American Jew. I think that this kind of injustice which was
perpetrated against me would make headlines and provoke such a
visceral response. But my treatment, again, was moderate by the standards faced
by Israeli and Palestinian activists in [the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood]
Sheikh Jarrah and in a weekly basis in [the West Bank villages]
It’s the fact that I’m an American Jew that [the video] has seen such a wide audience."
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