Israel vs. Palestine in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Story of Two Peoples Coveting the Same Land, One Side at a Time
Itamar Rabinovich is a former Israeli ambassador to the United States. Fear and anxiety are now at their most extreme. But in the end there are two peoples coveting the same land, and two sides to the story you have to try to see.”
The relentless weaponization of history goes all the way back to biblical times and the divergent fates of the estranged sons of Abraham — Isaac, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Ishmael, a prophet of Islam.
The 1948 Arab-Israeli War is called the “Nakba”, or catastrophe, by the Palestinians. Nakba vies with Holocaust as each side invokes “genocide.”
The psychological chasm between Palestinians and Israeli Jews is so deep that they are invisible to each other. There are exceptions, of course: Some Israelis and Palestinians have dedicated themselves to bridging that divide. But generally, the narratives of the two sides diverge, burying any perception of shared humanity.
The director of strategy for the GiVAT Hiva Center for Shared Society in Jerusalem said that each side wanted to be a five-star victim. If you can’t be a victim, you see everyone else as dehumanizing.
In the same way, Palestinian insight into the devouring specters of antisemitic persecution awakened in Jews by the Oct. 7 The terrorist attack that was done by Hamas appears insignificant. Mutual empathy is very hard to find.
One Israeli lawmaker, Ofer Cassif, has alluded to “pogroms” against Palestinians to describe the relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza, a word whose specific historical meaning is the slaughter of Jews and a word that many Israelis have used to describe the killing by Hamas of some 1,200 people last month, according to the Israeli authorities.
The group called Standing Together aims to bring Jewish and Palestinian citizens together “in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice.”
Palestinians in Israel cite threats, firings and discrimination after October 7: The Times of Israel and the israel’s War-Discrimination Law
If you don’t open your mouth, they will start to question your silence. Zoabi says. If you don’t close your mouth, it isn’t enough. You should say that you agree with them and identify with them.
A police official told NPR that Zoabi was arrested for “inciting” and trying to demonstrate without a permit. As of early November, Israeli police had issued dozens of indictments for incitement to violence and terror, and had opened dozens of other such cases, since the beginning of the war, according to The Times of Israel. Police haven’t made more up-to-date data public.
It was recently added to Israel’s counterterrorism law that Palestinians can be arrested for “consumption of terrorist materials” if they read pro-Hamas content online. Adalah and some other rights groups say the law is ambiguous and far-reaching.
We weren’t able to hold the banners. We were headed in the right direction. She said the police wouldn’t allow them to stand in the middle of the street because there were no banners.
Israeli War Critique: “Palestinians in Israel cite threats, firings and discrimination after Oct. 7,” says Samah Abou Shhadeh
“Every phone call is people who are being fired from their jobs or suspended from colleges and universities,” she said. They’re being taken into custody, and indictments are being submitted.
Samah Abou Shhadeh got her PhD two years ago and immediately got a job at an Israeli financial services company in a skyscraper in Tel Aviv.
Abou Shhadeh thought she could live in Jaffa in Tel Aviv’s old Arab quarter and commute across town to the Jewish financial district. She was part of both of those worlds, and she was proud, she recalls.
But everything changed on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked multiple locations in Israel, killing around 1,200 people and kidnapping about 240, according to the Israeli government. Israel has responded with fierce bombardment of Gaza that has killed more than 12,000, Palestinian health officials say.
She shared a clip from an Israeli film on social media. It’s about the massacre of a Palestinian village during the 1948 war between Israel and Palestine. She wasn’t commentary on the footage that she posted. This was in her personal account.
Her manager phoned her the next day. Colleagues were offended. She was told to remove the clip. The human resources department wrote a letter after Abou Shhadeh refused.
Source: Palestinians in Israel cite threats, firings and discrimination after Oct. 7
The Israeli medical system and human rights lawyer in Haifa, Israel, cites threats, firings and discrimination after Oct. 7
At least 20% of Israelis identify as Arab or Palestinian, like Abou Shhadeh. They are descendants of people who weren’t killed, expelled or forced to flee when Israel was created.
Many say they’ve long felt like second-class citizens. But human rights advocates say this Gaza war has unleashed a wave of mistreatment, abuse and further discrimination.
The Palestinian doctors wrote an open letter about the Israeli medical system, which they say is filled with racism, militarism and hypocrisy.
A labor discrimination suit is being contemplated by Abou Shhadeh. She asked NPR not to name or contact her company. She’s worried it could hurt her prospects of finding a new job.
This is crazy. A human rights lawyer in Haifa, Israel, Sawsan Zaher, says that they are not talking about feelings that are hurt. “We are talking about a massive wave of political persecution against Arab citizens inside of Israel.”
Zaher says she’s receiving 20 times more inquires from Arabs reporting labor abuse in Israel compared to before the war.
Source: Palestinians in Israel cite threats, firings and discrimination after Oct. 7
She’s scared of moving in with a baby, but she is scared of losing. When her ex-boyfriend confronts her boyfriend, she says goodbye
She thinks taking legal action against her former employer will hurt her chances of getting a new job. She and her fiancée have a mortgage to pay. They were supposed to get married this month, but the war has delayed that.