The Israeli chief of staff spoke of the Palestinians as a 'cancerous demographic threat'

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday September 06, 2002 12:38 by blisset (slight return)

and the world shrugged. So who said 'Never Again'?

Excerpt: "Q: There is something surprising in the fact that you see the Palestinian threat as an existential threat. "A: The characteristics of that threat are invisible, like cancer. When you are attacked externally, you see the attack, you are wounded. Cancer, on the other hand, is something internal. Therefore, I find it more disturbing, because here the diagnosis is critical. If the diagnosis is wrong and people say it's not cancer but a headache, then the response is irrelevant. But I maintain that it is cancer. My professional diagnosis is that there is a phenomenon here that constitutes an existential threat."

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