“The people in the West Bank who have taken up arms, gone to jail or spent their lives working, praying or waiting for self-determination are now asking whether all that time, effort and emotion were for naught,” the sad Halbfinger and Berger report says, noting that “in Hizma, a crowded village near Jerusalem almost completely ringed by Jewish settlements, Jahd Abu Helew, 42, has begun to contemplate what giving up on a state would mean for his five children.”
“‘The years before the PA came were better,’ he says of the Palestinian Authority, which has governed parts of the West Bank since 1995. Before that, residents were still under Israeli occupation but had more freedom of movement. He dismisses the authority as Israeli-owned, largely because of how much Palestinian security forces do, in his view, to aid Israeli control. Life is only getting worse, he said.”
And his mother, Najah, 61, “would settle for living under Israeli sovereignty with equal rights. At least it would be a ‘normal’ life, she said.”
Brothers Rameh and Rand Musmar, 31 and 35 respectively, who come from a family well connected to anti-Israeli terrorism, are disillusioned about the prospects of the 2-state solution. “Most of the people in my family, they’re seeing Oslo as dying, finished,” Rameh said. Rand said, “We should make peace. That’s it. We are lying to ourselves, and they are lying too. They are lying about the history, and we are lying about the reality. We’re always saying, ‘We’re strong, we’re still alive, we should fight till our last breath.’ No — this is wrong.”
(full article online)
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/ey...or-for-the-barriers-against-peace/2019/04/22/
