Jul 14 2006
PERSPECTIVE NARRATIVES
Daoud Kuttab
After 50 years of fighting, Palestinians and Israelis seem to have finally found the one thing that can really get the other side really angry. This became clear this week when the Israelis went berserk because of their inability to return their captured soldier and ordinary Palestinians felt completely helpless to stop the crimes of war in the form of collective punishments that Israel meted out in retaliation.
Palestinians and Israelis have become more polarized these past two weeks than at any time that I can recall.