WRITING once about the disinformation, propaganda, charge and countercharge that so characterised the civil war in Lebanon and Beirut during the…
A man reacts as mourners carry the bodies of a Palestinian family killed in an Israeli air strike to their burial at a cemetery in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip
As someone who has covered two Palestinian intifadas or uprisings in 1987 and 2000 and many turbulent events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since, I can think of few other international political issues that so quickly stir emotions, fill newspaper letter pages or generate the plethora of social media messaging, the way this long and bitter struggle does.
Fortunately these past days there have been a few such commentators whose take on current events encapsulates what I too believe is the actuality of the situation. Two of these observers are the Israeli journalists Gideon Levy and Amira Hass who both write for the daily newspaper Haaretz. Those experiences have involved a litany of hardship, pain and injustice, “military incursions, siege, fear, anxiety over loved ones, captivity, ruined holidays or celebrations, weakness and helplessness in the face of all-powerful armed men, and searing humiliation”.The kind that are true testimony to what has really been going on and prosecuted by successive Israeli governments.
But amidst all this bloodshed, bitterness and rancour between these two communities, it’s vital for all of us to keep to the forefront of our minds that both sides, Palestinian and Israeli, have their own respective narratives of victimhood.
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