A moving speech by Amira Haas, a true woman of valor, on the occassion of her receiving a prestigious journalism award in Stockholm.
“Another reason for my mixed feelings stems from a bitter awareness that my reports and articles are noticed, widely read and truely comprehended in the outside world much more than among the Israelis. A colleague of mine, whose views are closer to the popular and official Israeli version of the conflict, is candid and cynical. He told me just recently that the more does the ‘outside’ readership welcome me, the more marginal and irrelevant I am considered at home. It’s not that I am concerned with popularity or lack thereof. I am troubled that my words – and the words of quite a few other Israeli reporters, social and political critics and activists are not reaching their natural address.”