Mondoweiss:

Lillian Pollak, age 100, sat at a table near the picket lines, watching the demonstration amid the regular lunchtime crowd. She held a placard that read “Schumer voters, say Yes Yes to Iran nuclear deal.” Historically, Pollak said, “Israel has been able to hold up any kind of a peace deal, or progress, by the threat card.” But things are different. In 1960s America, “Israel was in. All the young people were dancing the hora and sending money to Israel and flocking to Israel. It took a long, long time. First of all, what changed were some of the massacres that took place against the Palestinians. And the fact that young people were learning to become disillusioned. It’s taking a long time, but I sit there, and I see a change.” She observed that people are more receptive now to protests like this one: “There’s information coming out. They are not able to lie infamously and get away with it.” And she remembered the days seventy years ago when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan: “People were running around waving the papers, shouting, ‘Hooray, we stopped the war,'” heedless of so many innocent victims. “People were happy. People are finally starting to turn away toward peace. You can’t get away with preaching patriotism all these years.”

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