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Post details: The Threat and the Occupation

2005-07-05

Permalink 17:25:38, by ratna Email , 1122 words, 347 views   English (EU)
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The Threat and the Occupation

Last week outstanding Israeli journalist Ari Shavit wrote a very interesting article in Haaretz. It started with what is at the heart of the problem:

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out between an occupied nation and a threatened nation. Two elements set this conflict apart from others: the occupation and the threat. No other nation has been subject to a protracted occupation like the Arab-Palestinian nation; no other nation has been subject to an existential threat like the Jewish-Israeli nation. It follows that without concurrent treatment of both the occupation and the threat, no solution will be found to the harsh conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

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Comment from: Shimon Z. Klein [Visitor] · http://shimonzk.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_shimonzk_archive.html
I had just read this post. Suffice it to say, it is well written and balanced. It has hit the nail on the head. The placing of this conflict in a nutshell by referring to it as "the Occupation and the Threat" is appropriate indeed.

The occupation occurred as a result of the threat rings very true.

The rest of this excellent article is self-explanatory.
Regards,
Shimon
PermalinkPermalink 2005-07-08 @ 08:08
Comment from: ratna [Member] Email
Hi Shimon,
Thanks. To be honest, I 'borrowed' this from Ari Shavit's aticle, that constitutes the basis of this blog. In my next blog I discuss a critic of this article by Aktiva Eldar and Daniel Bar-Tal.
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