By Mark Braverman, letter in The Day.com (Connecticut USA), Dec. 30, 2007.

Braverman is a clinical psychologist living in Bethesda, Md. He recently spoke at the “Tree of Life Conference on Israel and Palestine” held in Old Lyme.

Siriel-Media intro.: Braverman, who was brought up with the Zionist ideals and was surrounded by Israelis who wanted the world to denounce equally Palestinian and Israeli violence (the so-called “balanced view”), today writes:

Palestine is being destroyed. Israel has all the power. The Palestinian people — a good, patient people — are being ground into the dirt, their leaders killed, imprisoned or exiled, their young people impoverished and robbed of a future. Any possibility for nonviolent protest is made all but impossible by a brutal military occupation. Read article >>