When you sincerely believe that, there’s little room left for actually thinking, because anything you see is filtered and given meaning by the narrative we were given at church. “I want to buy from this shop; I like the idea as it is supporting our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank”.
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Yet many still believe that Israel must somehow figure out a way to separate from the Palestinians.
“What goes around comes around and I think what happened to me was an inevitable result of what happens to Palestinians on an nearly daily basis”, he said. Netanyahu’s ability to take unpopular steps – if he were inclined to do so – is sharply constrained by his coalition’s one-seat margin in parliament and its dominance by parties opposed or cool to territorial concessions.
-Allie Glushanok is a third-year business administration and interactive media dual major and vice president of communications of Huskies for Israel at Northeastern. “When he speaks in the name of the Jewish people, he is excluding 20% of the citizens of this country”.
That is why the period of time around the creation of Israel is known in Arabic as the Nakba, or the Catastrophe, a fact I never learned from the glowing heroic origin stories about the miracle nation that was, after all, chosen by God. Israel is a violent military occupation, with no end in sight.
Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, says even if there’s a lull in the current violence, which has claimed the lives of 10 Israelis and about 70 Palestinians, it will surge again if fundamental problems aren’t addressed. They enforce a religious-racial form of apartheid against non-Jews.
Furthermore, children are often Israeli targets and are imprisoned and tortured by Israeli solders.
Fifty-one percent of Israelis support two states, down from 62 percent a year earlier, according to a poll the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in June.
While I am against all violence, it’s important to understand why violence happens, and in this case it is quite understandable that such an oppressed people would resort to violence against the oppressors. He warned that years of unchecked extremist violence is creeping up against Jews as well.
“Let them have a state”, said Limor Abu-Hatzeira, a 47-year-old clerk in a Rishon Lezion clothing store just down the street from where three Israelis were stabbed, “so long as they leave us alone and let us live in peace”. Palestinians “will not agree to the continuation of the situation on our lands…”
While 57% of Jewish-Israeli respondents answered that they fear that they or someone close to them might be harmed, 78% of Arab-Israelis felt that way.
This reminds me of someone who once said, “Oh Jerusalem! You who kill the prophets and stone those God sends to you”.
But videos of numerous incidents show that Palestinians were killed when they posed no harm.
But when Yassir Arafat “failed”, in Israel’s eyes, to suppress the second intifada, Israel destroyed his security forces and forever ended the experiment of placing parts of the West Bank off limits to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Christian churches and institutions have a long history of being burned and vandalized by the Israelis. Thousands of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip since Israel’s 2005 exit, the strengthening of Hezbollah militants in Lebanon since Israel’s withdrawal from its enclave there in 2000, and mounting Islamist radicalism across the region made one-sided territorial concessions a non-starter for many Israelis.
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I get it. Mine did too.
