EDITOR:
It is with surprise and sadness that I read in the Guardian, Saturday September 22, the article glorifying David Ben-Gurion and then the shock that Windsor, N.S. is going to establish a memorial to him. Windsor is going to memorialize the man who was the main driver of the collective dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people during the Nakba of 1948. The man who drove the Zionist invaders to ethnic cleanse Palestine with statements such as:
“We must use terror, assassinations, intimidation, land confiscations and cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of the Arab population.
“We will expel the Arabs and take their place. In each attack, a decisive blow should be struck resulting in the destruction of homes and the expulsion of the population.
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“We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinians) never do return… the old will die the young will forget”
Ben-Gurion is a part of history and his actions cannot be undone. I encourage everyone to study his life and his actions; there are many good biographies. Please do not in naivety assume that this man is a person who should be held in honor on Canadian soil.
We have corrected the misconceptions of the past by removing the Cornwallis statue from Halifax because of his mistreatment of the Indigenous people of Canada. Why are we now, on Nova Scotia soil, establishing a memorial to a man who has caused the suffering of millions of indigenous Palestinians?
Jim Wicks,
Charlottetown,
(Islanders for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel)
