Expert explains Israeli-Palestinian disconnect from @nytmag
A Palestinian writer and lawyer explains how physical separation, caused by walls and checkpoints, has prevented the current generations of Palestinians and Israelis from knowing each other outside the context of conflict, leading to distorted perceptions. The interviewer reframes this as an "illusion of collective responsibility," which the writer then argues is a dangerous delusion that has directly contributed to violence and the genocide in Gaza.
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The present, generation of Palestinians have never met an Israeli who is not a settler or a soldier. And, there were times when Israelis came over to Ramallah and to other places in the West Bank and to to Gaza, actually, and and, went to restaurants and and had businesses with the Palestinians, and there was interaction on on many levels. And and now none of this is possible because of the wall and, apartheid wall and and because of the checkpoints. And so so many p Palestinians have never been
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