Daily News | This joint Memorial Day ceremony for fallen Israelis and Palestinians overcame hate
memorial service in Tel Aviv
But what was most astonishing about the event was to see the Palestinians fall into the arms of their Israeli hosts and hold on tightly.Why astonishing? Because these days, Palestinians and Israelis almost never come into contact, except at Israeli military checkpoints on the West Bank, or when violent Israeli settlers attack their fields — or when Palestinian workers come to Israel to work in construction or in the fields.
when Israelis traveled on weekends to Nablus and Jenin to shop and eat, and Palestinians went to the beach in Tel Aviv. During the Oslo peace talks, negotiators from both sides became close friends.Elected leaders in Israel, Poland, and Hungary are following the ‘autocrat’s playbook’ | Trudy Rubin I spoke with Yacoub Elrabi, a tall, middle-aged Palestinian in jeans and a checkered shirt from the village of Bidya near Nablus. “On the 18th of October, 2018, a Friday,” he told me with precision, “I was driving with my wife and 8-year-old daughter towards home. Settlers started throwing rocks at the car, and a huge one hit my wife on the head.
It was moving in the extreme to see Palestinians and Israelis who had experienced heartbreak at the hands of the other side embrace each other tightly and talk about family.
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