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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
I t is unfortunate that both P alestinian A rabs and I sraeli J ews are still stuck in the past, trapped in it, unable to be free from its yoke, unable to overcome or transcend or supersede it. Both utilize and mobilize the past, or their respective construal of it, in order to rationalize, justify and support their competing claims, rights, complaints, narratives, policies and actions in response to current events.
The past is never allowed to lay in rest. Since the turn of the 20th century, more obviously since the traumatic events in 1948, this tormenting past has never ceased to hover over the horizons of Palestine/Israel. It is a merciless and ruthless past indeed. The more one broods upon this past, thus used and abused, the less one is inclined to recognize the other, his rights and his past, especially in times of bloodshed and in times of intense suffering.
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