Avraham B Yehoshua

But doesn't continued expansion of the West Bank Jewish settlements undermine the chances of agreement? "The United States could stop it so easily," he replies. "Since the Six Day War they were saying all the time they were against the settlements and they have done nothing." Uncharacteristically, he raises his voice. If the US did, "they would be blessed by half of the Jewish population of Israel. They could stop it by saying to the prime minister of Israel 'you will not get funds for these weapons if you will not stop it'." US foreign policy also figures in his scathing denunciation of the British university teachers' union boycott of the university of which he is the most celebrated faculty member. It is "a shame for the British spirit" of debate and enquiry "to do this without finding out what is happening" in the universities. "I didn't see any boycotting of American universities during the Vietnam war or during the Iraq war which you yourselves are fighting in... you [boycott] a fine university that puts on its flag co-operation with the Arabs."

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