Intimate enemies
Jews and Arabs in a shared land
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Author
Publication
1995 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1270735M
- ISBN-100520085671
- OCLC Control Number31900256
- OCLC Control Numberintimateenemiesj0000benv
- Library of Congress Control Number95001933
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- Goodreads628054
- LibraryThing1759646
Classifications
- DDC956.9405/4
- LCCDS119.7 .B385813 1995
Description
One hundred years of life-and-death struggle between Jew and Arab over exclusive possession of Jerusalem and the Holy Land culminated in terrible blood baths and supreme acts of reconciliation, occurring during a short span of time: October 1990 to September 1993. Meron Benvenisti begins his excavation of this primordial struggle with the massacre on the Temple Mount in October 1990. Through this tragic lens, he brilliantly analyzes the entangled status of Jerusalem. He ends his book with the handshake of the Peace Accord in September 1993, a symbol of the promised peace. These are the two images of the intimate enmity between Israelis and Palestinians. Which image, he asks, represents the true nature of the conflict? Will a century of bloodshed prevent peace or will the future forgive the past? Is the conflict really over or have the rules of engagement simply shifted?
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