Mohammed Abu-Nimer + Sami Adwan — Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 2)

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🗓️ 16 March 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its inhabitants, on both sides of the conflict, consider holy. Our guests in this two-part series, Israeli and Palestinian, identify deeply with the story and suffering of their own people. They are also individuals who from across tumultuous recent history have reached out to the other side. They find themselves embittered at the failure of the Oslo peace process, reeling from recent events, and uncertain about the future. We explore their unresolved questions and despair, and probe the deep longing for peace that remains within each of them and how they are imagining a future within new political realities.

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0:22.4	I'm Krista Tippett.
0:23.6	Today, the second part of two narratives,
0:26.8	reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian present.
0:30.4	We continue listening to experiences and perceptions that divide
0:34.4	Israelis and Palestinians, even as they share a land they both consider holy.
0:39.7	This hour, the intersection of the spiritual and the political and the lives of
0:44.0	two Palestinians. As Hamas forms a cabinet and
0:47.6	Israel approaches a critical election, we probe their stories and their
0:52.1	sources of despair and of hope.
0:55.6	I think we need to touch the conflict at the human level.
0:58.7	If we still deal with the conflict at the political level,
1:02.4	official level, we really become faceless in these history
1:07.0	and we become just objects, numbers, etc.
1:11.7	This is speaking of faith. Stay with us.
1:18.0	I'm Krista Tippett. This hour, the intersection of the spiritual and the
1:22.4	political and the lives of two Muslim Palestinians.
1:26.2	These men are deeply rooted in the suffering of their people.
1:29.8	They've also sought to understand the conflict in their land from both sides.
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