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U.S. Jewish Leader Henry Siegman to Israel: Stop Killing Palestinians and End the Occupation
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7:40Now PlayingIn the second part of our interview, Henry Siegman, the former head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America, discusses the assault on Gaza, Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel, and how peace could be attainable if the Obama administration reverse decadeslong support for the Israeli occupation. Born in 1930 in Germany, Siegman fled as the Nazis came to power, eventually arriving in the United States. His father was a leader of the European Zionist movement pushing for the creation of a Jewish state. In New York, Siegman studied and was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi by Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. He now serves as president of the U.S./Middle East Project. Commenting on the Hamas charter that calls for Israel's destruction, Siegman says"The difference between Hamas and Israel is that Israel is actually implementing [a destruction policy] actually preventing a Palestinian state which doesn't exist. Millions of Palestinians live in this subservient position without rights, without security, without hope, and without a future." Commenting on Israeli justifications for killing Palestinians in the name of selfdefense from 1948 through today, Siegman responds"If you don’t want to kill Palestinians, if that’s what pains you so much, you don’t have to kill them. You can give them their rights, and you can end the occupation. And to put the blame for the occupation and for the killing of innocents that we are seeing in Gaza now on the Palestinians why? Because they want a state of their own? They want what Jews wanted and achieved? This is a great moral insult."
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