Last week, Dovid Efune, editor-in-chief and CEO of the Algemeiner, posted an article commemorating a year since the death of the great poet and singer, Leonard Cohen.
In it, Efune reveals that Cohen, who invested considerable effort in a project aimed at bringing Israeli and Palestinian children together, expressed his support for the idea of funded emigration of the Palestinian-Arabs saying: “We need to separate from them [the Palestinians]…But it must be humane.”
In this, Cohen joins other prominent figures with impeccable humanitarian credentials, such as Nobel Peace Laureate, Andrei Sakharov, and the “Great Humanitarian”, President Herbert Hoover, who endorsed the idea as a means to bring bloody ethnic strife to an end.
Andrei Sakharov: “With all the money that has been invested in the problem of Palestinians, it would have been possible long ago to resettle them and provide them with good lives in Arab countries.”
Herbert Hoover: “Consideration should be given even to the heroic remedy of transfer of populations… the hardship of moving is great, but it is less than the constant suffering of minorities and the constant recurrence of war”
What more has to happen to convince the world that funded emigration of the Palestinian Arabs – to provide them with more prosperous and secure lives in third party countries – would be the most humane policy if it succeeds – and least inhumane if it does not.
