{"id":55386,"date":"2017-08-26T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55386"},"modified":"2017-08-26T06:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T04:51:49","slug":"26-00-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55386","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just 1967, stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s not just 1967, stupid<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Lily Galili<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Photographie fournie par le service de presse palestinien, du pr\u00e9sident palestinien Mahmoud Abbas et de l’\u00e9missaire am\u00e9ricain Jason Greenblatt \u00e0 Ramallah, le 25 mai 2017 OSAMA FALAH (PPO\/AFP)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

While even left-wing Israelis hope to resolve consequences of the 1967 War, the conflict is still root in 1948<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Jason D. Greenblatt, US president Donald Trump\u2019s special representative for Middle East negotiations, tweeted on a rather cheerful note: \u201cI look forward to returning to the Middle East soon with Jared Kushner & Dina Powell as we pursue peace. Potus is optimistic.\u201dGreenblatt\u2019s followers must be less optimistic than their President. Only 11 likes and 8 re-tweets is a poor harvest for such a promising step. Still, the trio might jump start the conflict carriage stuck in deep mud.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact that all of the members of this small delegation are new to an old conflict is not necessarily bad news. Where great experts failed, novices might strike beginners\u2019 luck. This time, they will need a lot of it.On both sides of what was the green line, they will be welcomed by troubled leaders. On the Palestinian side, aging Mahmoud Abbas, lacks the authority to make major steps and lead the Palestinians to necessary concessions; on the Israeli side, they are going to meet a great friend, but also a Prime Minister deeply preoccupied with a series of probes and investigations into his personal conduct. This is not the kind of energy and level of trust required to resolve what is now defined as the most difficult conflict.Over many painful years, it has turned from a political-territorial conflict into one saturated with deep religious overtones. <\/span><\/p>\n

Recent riots on the Temple Mount raising the issue of sovereignty over this holy site prove just that.The completely Muslim world was on some level concerned and involved. Including, of course, Israeli Arabs who played a major role in the tense week. In fact, three Israeli Arabs killing two Israeli Druze police officers stationed on the mountain in the name of Allah triggered the whole event.In a public opinion poll conducted in the Ramallah-based Center for Policy, a majority of Palestinians believe that most of the world does not stand with them — but God does. This is what the Israelis believe, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The involvement of Israeli Arabs (sometimes nicknamed Arabs of 48\u2019, those who remained in what was then new Israel), was not just expression of religious sentiment. It was a scary reminder to the fact that while even left-oriented Israelis hope and try to resolve the consequences of the 1967 war, the conflict is still rooted in 1948 — the establishment of the state of Israel and the war that followed.As time goes by with no solution, that element becomes more and more evident and openly expressed by Palestinians. The new American team appointed to the mission of peace (agreement will suffice at this point) should bear it in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit for detecting that factor goes to then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Upon return in 2000 from unsuccessful negotiations with the Palestinian delegation in Camp David he stated, \u201cI came to discuss 1967 and Yasser Arafat kept talking about 1948.\u201dThis statement got lost in the fury or joy over the failure of those talks and the Intifada that followed, but its implications have just gained momentum over the last two decades.\u201cIf you listen carefully to what the Palestinians say, it is true,\u201d Ziad Abu Zayad, former Minister of State in the PA and member of numerous negotiation teams with Israel tells i24NEWS. \u201cIn the absence of any solution to the conflict the issue of \u201848 gains more and more weight — especially with the younger generation.\u201d\u201cIt is not the divisive line between Hamas and Fatah supporters; it is more an issue of generations,\u201d he continues. \u201cAs Israel failed to really absorb the Palestinians who stayed within the green line, the importance of 1948 is gaining more momentum.\u201dAs it often happens in this symbiotic conflict, simultaneously to this process among young Palestinians, young Israelis did the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

They erased the green line by normalizing life on the West Bank.A documentary by prominent Israeli writer, Nir Baram \u201cA Land Without Borders,\u201d based on his book with the same title, reinforces this assumption. The many Palestinians he interviewed talked openly about 1948 and their claim to that lost land.Baram\u2019s father, Uzi Baram, former minister of the Labor Party government and a leading figure on the left, is still convinced it is about 1967. Again, a generation gap. As the notion of one Israel on both sides of the line becomes a normal, unequivocal reality, so grows deeper and deeper Palestinian consciousness of 1948.Sara Haetzni-Cohen, second generation born in Kiryat- Arba, West Bank, right wing activist, participated in Baram\u2019s movie and wrote about it. She claims this recognition is a challenge to both right and left. <\/span><\/p>\n

recommended by:<\/em><\/span>
\n Leon Rozenbaum<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
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Two years ago, Prof. Ruth Gavison, a renowned Israeli Lawmaker and member of several prestigious public committees, wrote that the \u201cdiscourse of Nakba (as the Arabs refer their 1948 tragedy) replaced the discourse of 1967 occupation among Israeli Arabs, prominent Palestinian leaders and supporters of BDS.\u201d Most of those officially involved in peacemaking efforts — both Israelis and Palestinians — still cling to 1967 as the key issue.At the same time, less and less Israelis and Palestinians support the two- state solution roughly based on 1967 lines. Those involved in the series of endless peace talks leading nowhere now say that the new team should use its lack of experience to calculate a new route. Listening to the new voices, it seems that 1948 is not history, but rather an important factor to deal with in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not just 1967, stupid Lily Galili Photographie fournie par le service de presse palestinien, du pr\u00e9sident palestinien Mahmoud Abbas et de l’\u00e9missaire am\u00e9ricain Jason Greenblatt \u00e0 Ramallah, le 25 mai 2017 OSAMA FALAH (PPO\/AFP) While even left-wing Israelis hope to resolve consequences of the 1967 War, the conflict is still root in 1948 Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55386"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55388,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55386\/revisions\/55388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}