イスラエル／パレスチナ和平

The battle for the truth.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,685592,00.html


The world needs to know what really happened in Jenin if only to be better equipped to stop it happening again. Both Israelis and Palestinians need to know, because more disinformation, more denial and lies, and yet more tragic myth-making only feed the hatred and deepen the divide. Most of all perhaps, the children of Jenin need to know. The future of this land, if it still has one, lies with them. To deny them the truth would be yet another crime.
このJeninの地の未来というものが、もし、それでもあるとすれば、それは、その子ども達とともに身をかがめているのだ。その子ども達に真実を指し出すことを拒むことになるとすれば、
さらにまた1つの犯罪行為を、われわれは、あらしめることになるのだが。