Uri Avnery writes about Sharansky in a similar vein to my recent article.
“…the real disillusionment [with Sharansky], at least for me, started with the Husseini affair. Some good soul arranged a meeting between the great dissident and Feisal Husseini, the leader of the Arab community in East Jerusalem, a fighter for Palestinian human rights and a real humanist. Sharansky agreed, but at the last moment retracted, claiming that he had not known that Husseini belonged to the PLO. (Which is rather like not knowing that Bush is an American.) At the time I wrote an article about him under the heading ‘Shafansky’. ‘Shafan’ is Hebrew for rabbit, the symbol of cowardice.”
“From then on, the great human rights fighter gradually became an uncompromising activist against the human (and any other) rights of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
