Triumph and catastrophe: in continuing the discussion begun in the July/August 2002 Humanist regarding the origins of the strife between Israelis and Palestinians, events in Israel's first decade as a nation firmly drew the lines of conflict. (Origins of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict).

From: The Humanist | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Schafer, David | Copyright information

On May 15, 1948, the sun rose for the first time on Medinath Yisrael, the infant state of Israel, and widespread Zionist rejoicing was accompanied by wailing, rage, and utter disbelief of the Palestinians, already demoralized by their crushing defeat in a civil war. Some sixty-six years had passed since the first aliyah ("going up" to Israel) of immigrants who sought to escape the czarist pogroms of 1881. Finally, the moment of victory had arrived--or was it more like a new stage a...

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