With My Own Eyes

With My Own Eyes: Israel and the Occupied Territories, 1967-1973

FOREWORD by Israel Shahak Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Chit Rights
Forewords are usually written by neutral figures or by friends. This will be a foreword written by a friend and admirer of Felicia Langer. In spite of our deep political differences - Felicia Langer is a communist• while ! oppose both communism and Marxism • I have been working in the closest co-operation wills Felicia Langer for several Yeats, said I have no hesitation in saying that I completely believe her testimony and eel. dence. Nobody, in my opinion, whatever his political or philosophical opinions, can deny that the cases of persecution, oppression and torture described in this book are not only true in themselves, but are also characteristic of Israeli rule in the occupied territories. There are many other similes cases which could have enlarged this book to tidy monstrous proportions, both from the work of Felicia Langer herself and from the experiences of other Israeli lawyers, both Pews and Arabs. Indeed the original book in Hebrew as published in Israel was much longer, because for those of us who participated with Felicia Langer in her numerous struggles, her book served not only as Israel's `History of Modem Times', but to a great extent as our oval history: the history of our hopes hr human nature. Perhaps this time or next time, we used to think, with better documentation, with more Viable testimony, with a 'better case', those who had wilfully closed their eyes and eats would be convinced, at least to the extent of asking questions; that the wises of suffering humanity would at last be heard, and perhaps be answered. But up to now in Israel this has not hap.