Yossi Klein Halevi — Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present, Part 1

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🗓️ 9 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. Today, two narratives,
0:25.9	reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian present.
0:29.6	My guests this week and next present views of life in one land that cannot at present
0:35.1	be reconciled. But their accounts of what is its stake provide substance for our understanding,
0:41.4	as Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, and Israel prepares for a critical election.
0:47.4	Religion is a primary source of conflict in their region, my guests say,
0:52.1	and it cannot be bracketed out of politics and peace negotiations.
0:57.3	I think we need to start taking religion seriously.
1:01.1	It's terrifying, especially when you confront this tsunami of fundamentalism.
1:06.8	But we're not going to be able to deal with reality unless we get rid of our wishful thinking.
1:14.8	This is speaking of faith. Stay with us.
1:18.0	I'm Krista Tippett. For the next two weeks, we'll explore the intersection of the spiritual
1:24.3	and the political in entrenched Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We will not seek to reconcile what
1:31.6	cannot be reconciled at present. We'll listen to understand the difficulty of reaching peace in
1:38.2	a land that its inhabitants on both sides of conflict consider holy.
1:45.0	From American public media, this is speaking of faith. Public radio's conversation about religion,
1:51.5	meaning ethics and ideas.
1:56.4	Today, the first of a series, two narratives, reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian present.
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