Kesher Talk

How to be a real freedom fighter. Marek Edelman, a cardiologist, human rights activist, and oh, by the way, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, called upon Palestinians to reject terrorism. His letter, published in a Polish daily and Le Monde, drew interesting reactions:

The letter prompted an angry rebuke from the Warsaw office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which replied in Gazeta Wyborca that Edelman had unfairly saddled the Palestinians with the bulk of the blame for the continuing violence in the Middle East, ignoring Israel's role as an occupying power. Shortly afterward, Edelman told the Forward, he was visited at his home in Lodz by the chairman of the Polish-Arab Friendship Society, Omar Faris, who praised him for his initiative and offered to help move it forward.

posted by Judith @ 8/25/2002 12:57:52 AM