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There Is Enough Guilt on Both Sides
Alisa Douer
其他書名
Reflections on the Israel-Palestine Conflic
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014-10-13
ISBN15028048169781502804815
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3TnWoQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋There is enough guilt on both sidesPolitical problems have been a part of everyday life in the Middle East, but with the influx of Jews into Palestine in the early 20th century, the conflict became acute for Arabs who had been living there for hundreds of years. They saw their land vanishing by the Jewish newcomers. They saw the desert transformed into a fruitful country, and came to realize that if this process continued, this place would no longer be their home. Which is precisely what happened.When the United Nations General Assembly discussed the partition of Palestine into two countries-Israel for the Jews and Palestine for the Arabs-in 1947, Europe breathed a sigh of relief: this plan looked like the perfect solution for displaced Jews who were neither keen on returning to their native countries nor readily welcomed by most of the European countries. The partition seemed like the best solution to everybody-except of course to the Muslims of Palestine, but nobody thought of them. In the end, the Jews and the Arabs of Palestine had to pay the bill. Leaders on both sides are either unwilling to talk to each other or lack the skills to do so. At times it seems almost as if they do not consider peace a serious issue. No matter who is right or wrong, history has brought two ethnicities to live together in this certain region and they have no other choice than to get along with each other or to destroy one another by hate and war.About 700.000-800.000 Palestinians had to leave their Homes in Palestine/Erez Israel; some were expelled, some left out of fear because their leaders told them that they will be killed by the Jews. Others were told that it will not be a problem for them to come back after a short time, when the Arabs will throw the Jews into the Sea and take Palestine back. But, no matter what was the reason for them to leave, it was a result of the creation of the state of Israel in what used to be their Homeland.In Jewish life, the wish to return to Zion was expressed in prayers and in Messianic movements for thousands of years. Modern Zionism, by contrast, was a secular movement dating to its inception in the 19th century. Its focus on Erez-Israel as the future homeland for the Jews was politically motivated. With the creation of the state of Israel in Mai of 1948, Palestinians faced the same destiny as Jews in Arab countries. About one million Jews had to flee or were expelled from across the Arab world, forced in the process to leave all their possessions and properties behind. As they could not return to their home-countries even if they would have desired to, they suffered the same fate as Palestinian refugees.The concept of Erez-Israel/Palestine refers to the 28,000-square kilometer territories between the Jordan River to the East and the Mediterranean Sea to the West. When I use one term or the other, I don't intend to transmit who has the rights to this territory.One of the purposes of this book is to analyze the central events in Israeli-Palestinian history in an effort to understand how and why the conflict can and must be solved-the faster the better.Many questions are left to be asked, and we can offer satisfactory answers to only a few of them.