poncd in Durban, is a lie that seems to gain credence with repetition. On the other side, she said, defending Israel is tough.
"It's very hard to overcome prejudice with facts," she said.
No military solution
Winding up the weekend, Raday joined professors Wolfs-feld, Rachel Elior and Gershon Golomb for a panel discussion on the topic Israel - Current and Future Challenges.
Wolfsfeld said there is no real choice other than seeking peace with the Palestinians, as there is no military solution to this conflict
On the domestic front, Wolfsfeld said, the constitutional gua]> antces for protection of minority peoples have not been adequately enforced. The key to Israel's future, he said, must be to make those theoretical rights real.
Golomb, who is a professor of cancer studies, took a more right-wing perspective. Ho said the whole debate pivots on a false vocabulary.
"We liberated the territories, not occupied them," he said.
Of the challenges facing Israel, he dtcd things such as building a subway system in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, which should be the next step in the development of a technologically advanced industrial society. He was greeted by laughter when he suggested that one of Israel's problems is that, by not demanding exact change, the buses are slowed by drivers fumbling for change. However, he argued that the exact change problem is symptomatic of Israelis making things more difficult than they need to be.
Elior, head of the Hebrew University's department of Jewish studies, said Israel's problems stem from the fact that, for 2,000 years, Jews prophesied that they would return to the land from which they came. When they did return, she said, they found the land had not remained unoccupied during their absence.
"The land that we dreamed of was a land of milk and honey." Unfortunately, she added, "Our land of dreams is also the land of dreams of others."
In rebuttal, Golomb quipped that finding Palestinians who share the peaceful sentiments of his fellow panelists is the real dream.
Also participating in the weekend program were Marilyn Koo-lik, director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, and Yair Zakovitch, dean of humanities at the university.
Stretch Your Mind, the Best of Hebrew U was presented by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the JCC. □
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