A Crazy Prophet by Uri Avnery

A Crazy Prophet

by Uri Avnery

"What will happen if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians march one day to the Separation Wall and pull it down? What if a quarter of a million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon gather on our Northern border? What if masses of people assemble in Manara Square in Ramallah and Town Hall Square in Nablus and confront the Israeli troops? All this before the cameras of Aljazeera, accompanied by Facebook and Twitter, with the entire world looking on with bated breath?"...Until now, the answer was simple: if necessary, we shall use live fire, helicopter gunships and tank cannon. No more nonsense....But now the Palestinian youth, too, has seen that it is possible to face live fire, that Qaddafi’s fighter planes did not put an end to the uprising, that Pearl Square in Bahrain did not empty when the king’s soldiers opened fire. This lesson will not be forgotten....Perhaps this will not happen tomorrow or the day after. But it most certainly will happen – unless we make peace while we still can.