A small, sad
record was set on Thursday, for the largest number of deaths in a single day in
the two-month rash of scattered attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West
Bank. Five people died, two by stabbing in Tel Aviv and three by automatic
gunfire near Alon Shvut, a Jewish settlement. In the shadow of the attacks in
Paris, however, this everyday violence has slipped nearly out of sight. It has
become so routine that it remains in our peripheral vision.
No peace talks
are scheduled, and even if they were they would need to reach more deeply into
ordinary beliefs than negotiators can usually manage. Those beliefs are shaped
in schools, which fail to teach children to think sympathetically about the
other’s past and recent history. As touchy-feely as this might seem, education
has grown into an unavoidable obstacle to co-existence, for it misinforms
perceptions across the lines of conflict. Continue reading at The New Yorker.
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