Written by Joseph Preville for ISLAMiCommentary
"Only few Israelis and Palestinians see their counterparts as equal human beings with the same collective and individual rights. The Israeli elections may bring new political leadership, but this leadership should introduce this missing perspective, not follow the right wing governments in seeing the Palestinians and other Arab " Muslim societies as an existential threat to us. " " Menachem KleinÃ?
Once upon a time, Jews and Arabs in Palestine were partners, neighbors, and friends. Israeli scholar Menachem Klein reminds us of this historical fact in Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and HebronÃ? (Hurst & Company, 2014). And, he explains how the shared native identity between Jews and Arabs was shattered by the "Zionist-Palestinian conflict of 1948."
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