Communicating Arts - Main Web SiteThe sources said that the uncle has confessed to the murder. He told police investigators that he "lost his temper" when some boys in the village told him that his nephew had waved to a Border Police soldier as he drove by.
The father, who works as a taxi driver, told reporters that his son's alleged gesture triggered rumors in the village that his son was "working for Mishmar Hagvul [Border Police].
There's the alleged ending.
Wherefore the beginning?
Toameh, Khaled Abu. "Relatives of boy slain as 'collaborator' seek death penalty for family members who killed him." The Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2009: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371100264&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
I believe Israel at peace, and Jews who work with refugees in the territorial Arab populations may be called partners.
Not all would agree with me.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel preaches humanitarian ideals to foreigners, but it tells Palestinians that "Seeds of Peace" is a "most dangerous" organization and that Palestinians who engage in dialogue are "traitors" who take crumbs from Americans and Europeans. Though the spokesman for this group is Omar Barghouti, most of the founders are Hamas-supporting Bir Zeit University lecturers.
Reference: http://www.zionism-israel.com/Israel_boycott.htm. The same page goes on to note israeli and partnered Arab-Israeli contributions out of Israel's academic and research sectors.
Israel's universities are worldwide centers of excellence with students from all over the globe – Arab, Jewish, and Christian alike. There are no ethnic or religious qualifications for entry, and the universities are not controlled by the government.
Rafi Afaghani, publishing through the Common Ground News Service, notes this:
Analysts have described Israel’s inflexible position on the two-state solution and refusal to stop building settlements as being the main obstacle to peace. What they fail to realise is that internal Palestinian turmoil is an equally important obstacle to achieving a two-state solution. Obama’s vision as it was expressed in his Cairo speech also lacked this one central ingredient. Despite waves of optimism over President Obama’s promises of an active role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, his efforts to attain peace will be in vain if he doesn’t first take measures to put an end to the Fateh-Hamas dispute.
Source: "Mr. President, the intra-Palestinian dispute is an obstacle to peace." Common Ground News Service, June 11, 2009: http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=25663&lan=en&sid=0&sp=0&isNew=1
I'm not so certain today of the wisdom for Christians, Muslims, or Jews of a "two-state solution" that produces less than area-wide security for all, but so long as the medieval anachronism of fealty according to "uterine relations" produces division sufficient to (allegedly) murder a brother's son for talking to a Jewish policeman, there may be that much less hope for the Arab refugee enjoyment in Israel of the myriad financial, security, and spiritual benefits of living in a modern state beneath the umbrella of an equally appropriate and liveable civil code.
One day, there will be a sea change across Israel's blood bespattered land, and perhaps sooner than we know, those who live in proximity may discover the benefits of collaboration across practical issues, including matters of internal security, the development of responsible and responsive institutions, and perhaps even the sifting and settling out of religious phantasmagoria.
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