{"id":2626,"date":"2007-10-27T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2007-10-27T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T04:05:07","slug":"israeli-soldier-writes-president-of-oxford-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Israeli soldier writes President of Oxford Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ronen Berelovich<br \/>\nIsrael<\/p>\n<p>Luke Tryl<br \/>\nPresident of Oxford Union<br \/>\nOxford University, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Luke,<\/p>\n<p>In spite of our differences, it was a pleasure to talk to you on the phone today, 23-10-07.  Thank you for your openness and honesty.  I am now following up with a letter to register my official complaint about the decision you took to remove Professor Norman Finkelstein from the &#8220;One state is the only solution for Israel&#8221; debate that was to be hold in 23\\10\\07 at Oxford Union.  I am registering my complaint as a private individual living in Israel i am a film-maker and a reserve soldier in the Israeli Army.  There are a few points that arose in our conversation, which I believe would be of wider interest than just to the two of us, so I&#8217;d like to highlight them and to share this letter with Professor Finkelstein and anyone else interested.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate our conversation, you told me that the reason for the removal of Professor Finkelstein from the debate was the intervention of certain interest parties and people pressuring Oxford Union. You identified Alan Dershowitz as one of those people and you said that he had personally demanded that Professor Finkelstein should be removed from the debate. The reason being that with Finkelstein on the &#8220;two-state&#8221; side, the debate would be too &#8220;anti Israel&#8221; and &#8220;not balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.normanfinkelstein.com\/article.php?pg=11&amp;ar=1279\">Read the letter<\/a>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronen Berelovich Israel Luke Tryl President of Oxford Union Oxford University, UK Dear Luke, In spite of our differences, it was a pleasure to talk to you on the phone today, 23-10-07. Thank you for your openness and honesty. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}