According to Haaretz, in Hebrew only so far,
we've lost our central position as the main conflict in the region. a lot was spoken about civil war in Algeria, the tesnion between Turkey and Greece and the war between Serbia and Croatia. on this background, the Arab-Israel conflict was but one of many.
To be fair, I don't know if she is disappointed.
I found this:
Is this barrier going to be "The Wall of The Ghetto?" And for whom: for Palestinians or for Israelis? Will it discourage terrorism, and put a border on hatred, or only instigate more frustration and hatred? Does it establish the grounds for a future recognizable border at the end of occupation? Is this barrier the unavoidable stage of separation needed to delineate property, identity, nationhood? Is it a fatal mistake, or is it a means to one day enable the tearing down of barriers and of fences, as in the year of "Release"?
I climb the Hill, watching this complex space changing, year after year, raising the most challenging question about space: What is the space that will make a place for the complexity of otherness; multilayered enough to enable the co-existence of fully distinct "others?" Facing this question will require not less then a global revolution - in the Muslim Jihad's claims to ownership of the land, in the Christian Western aspirations of dominion over Celestial Jerusalem and terrestrial oil wells, and in the Zionist dream. And maybe there also must be a Jewish dimension of "Release."
I stand on the Hilltop in the midst of an oppressive present moment. I watch this intense space imprinted with history like an Archive of the layered story of Western civilization, with its heights of belief, love and poetry and its abysses of stupidity, fanaticism, jealousy and cruelty. I stand on the Hilltop, in the midst of this amazingly beautiful arena of nature and mankind, and I cannot resist naming it "outrageous hope." Another synonym for "Jerusalem."
Anyway, I've asked her and will wait her reply.
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