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112 pages, Hardcover
Published October 3, 2024
If the situation between Israel and its neighbours does not fundamentally shift, and if we find ourselves mired in a war as deadly as the current one every few years, Israel and Palestine will become nations whose entire being is war and hatred, nationalism and racism. Democracy will then be nothing more than a naive hope. Are these the states in which we want to live and raise our children.
It is sickening to think that this murderous hatred is directed solely at a nation that not many years ago was, in fact, almost eradicated. There is also something galling about the tortuous and cynical connection between Jewish existential anxiety and the desire – prevalent among many nations and religions – that Israel cease to exist. It is furthermore intolerable that certain parties are attempting to force the Israeli–Palestinian conflict into a colonialist discourse. Adn then there are those who wilfully forget that Jews do not have another country – which would be an essetnial element in defining a nation or state as colonialist – and obscure the fact that Jews are not a foreign occupier in the Land of Israel; that their powerful affinity with this land is almost 4,000 years old; that this is where they emerged as a nation, a religion, a culture and a language.
decades-long bloodshed, the wars and 'operations' whose hunger is never sated, the occupation, the resistance to it, the construction of settlements, the trespassing – in every sense of the word – and the terrorism.
Most people who were born into 'the situation' and have lived their whole lives in it have long given up hope that it may ever be resolved. They are paralysed by its complexities: the infinite circularity, the inevitability of violence and counter-violence, the hollow slogans employed in the endless retellings of history, the way authentic human stories are turned into a manipulative 'narrative'.