Mira Sucharov : Only true Israeli patriots can end fifty years of occupation
Only true Israeli patriots can end fifty years of occupation HAARETZ.COM One of the global giants in the field of political and educational psychology has recently retired from his post as a professor at Tel Aviv University's School of Education to, in his words, become a “full time peacenik.” I recently spoke to Daniel Bar-Tal about his attempt to end the occupation one email at a time. Called “Save Israel; Stop the Occupation” (or SISO for short), Bar-Tal’s call to action demands that by June 5, 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the occupation, the Israeli government either “accept the creation of an independent Palestinian state or… extend equal rights to everyone living in the occupied territories until there is an agreed final resolution of the conflict.” Bar-Tal speaks in terms of “dreams” and Herzl and Martin Luther King, Jr. and trying to elicit a shock to Israeli society. And while he talked to me about human rights abuses a