Published: 14 June 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Terror, enmity and fear were not always dominant in the Jewish-Arab narrative, maintains Middle East expert Prof. Menachem KIein, author of ‘Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron’. He explains who brought about the erosion of those fraternal relations but also, despite everything, offers a glimmer of optimism. ‘We are not a Western villa in the Middle Eastern jungle, we are part of the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean, like Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Alexandria… In contrast to the prevailing notion that they [the Arabs] always hated us, that it was like this from the beginning and will always be this way, it’s not so – and that’s cause for much optimism.’
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