Arabs and Jews: is there any light at the end of the tunnel for peace in the Middle East? Or is the Jewish-Arab war condemned to last forever?
The Humanist › Vol. 62 Nbr. 5, September 2002
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Arabs and Jews: is there any light at the end of the tunnel for peace in the Middle East? Or is the Jewish-Arab war condemned to last forever?
The war between the Jews and the Arabs in former British Palestine has been going on for eighty-one years. In 1921, the first Arab explosion against the Zionist pioneers announced the beginning of the fray. Hatred and suspicion have undermined any successful resolution of the conflict.
After the Jewish War of Independence in 1948, the conflict became a war between the Jewish state and external Arab enemies. In that conflict, the Israelis were generally victorious. The Israeli triumph in 1967 crushed Gamal Abdel Nasser, the hero of Arab nationalism. But in 1987 the Palestinian Arabs chose a new kind of battle--internal rebellion. The infitada w...See the full content of this document
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