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Will Greater Israel Transform Into Greater Palestine?
HENRY SIEGMAN
Posted:
11/26/2014
The future
for Israelis and Palestinians has never been bleaker than it is now, in the wake
of the savage assault by two Palestinians on Jewish worshippers in a Jerusalem
synagogue.
The trauma
of the event falls most heavily on Israelis, for Palestinians in the West Bank
have lived for some time now in despair of their future and the future of their
children, seeing no end to Israel’s occupation. In contrast, many Israelis have
believed that denying millions of Palestinians in the West Bank their right to
self-determination and statehood is a “sustainable” state of affairs. This
illusion has been shattered by the assault on the Jerusalem synagogue. Israelis
are now experiencing some of the insecurity and hopelessness so deeply felt by
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and also by Israel’s Arabs,
particularly the ones in East Jerusalem.
In a
column in
Ha’aretz, Ari Shavit wrote that the massacre in the synagogue is even more
“disturbing” than the violence that occurred during the second intifada, because
this time it is “an actual religious struggle. This time we’re talking about the
kindling of a holy war over the Holy City.” It is a notion widely accepted by
the media everywhere.
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