(The Age, SMH, 9/2/2026)
God bless him – Peter
Around the turn of the century, when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still appeared hopelessly intractable but not yet ruinous to the whole world, I remember having dinner with a group of close male friends up in the hills of Byron Bay.
There were eight of us around the table, two of us Jewish, when the conversation suddenly turned from good-natured to hostile. The talk had somehow veered towards Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian people and it was clear that the views of the two Jewish men, one of whom was me, were diametrically opposed.
I believed then that the best way to secure peace and security for the Jewish people – within both Israel and the diaspora – was to end the brutal occupation of the Palestinians and establish an independent Palestinian state alongside the Jewish one.
My friend, now a former friend, called me not just a traitor to our people, but a greater threat than the one posed by our obvious enemies. Why? Because I represented the threat from within, the fifth column, the individual who endangered the unity and safety of the group.
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