De Palestijnse journalist Daoud Kuttab en voormalige Ferris Professor of Journalism aan de Princeton University (VS) schrijft n.a.v. de Gaza schermutselingen (bij gebrek aan een betere term) op www.sojo.net over “wie begonnen is”. Ik citeer de slotalinea, lees de rest maar op eigen gelegenheid.
Ik heb als verbaasde buitenstaander over het hele gedoe momenteel geen originele analyse of opluchtende oplossing.
It is clear that in order to distinguish right from wrong both sides need to agree on a starting point. Many today believe that the natural starting point for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the late 1940s, which witnessed the U.N. partition plan—initially the legal basis for the creation of Israel. If the partition of mandatory Palestine is an accepted starting point, then a logical conclusion to the conflict would require that an end to both direct and indirect occupation of the Palestinian half of the partition plan is in order. Irrespective of time and chronology, trading land for peace continues to be the most logical and appropriate way to address the conflict which has bridged the 20th and 21st centuries.
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