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Article: Zion and the Arabs: Jaffa as a metaphor.(Reprint)
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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There are libraries full of books on the Israeli-Arab conflict. But none so far has focused primarily on the lives of real people from both sides by recounting multiple family narratives. Of course no single work can capture the intricacy of a century-old struggle, but I hope the people in this essay give a sense of its complexity. They are Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. They are middle class and working class. They are artisans and intellectuals, artists and businessmen. Some are left-wing, others rightwing--in short, human beings, in all their variety and contradictions.
Why Jaffa? Because the relationship between Jaffa and Tel Aviv is a metaphor for that ...