Journalists and historians writing on the Middle East have decried the refusal to learn from history
Providing historical context for contemporary war is not about justification or side taking. Interpretations of long-standing hatreds do not stay static, but thethis past week. The conflict has preoccupied many scholars, given the complicated impacts and legacies of colonialism, power and prestige, religious forces, occupation, dispossession, refugees, national identities, new political elites, resistance and terror, alongside oil and financial interests.
In November 1917, Lord Balfour, then British foreign secretary, wrote: “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
The historical documents, of course, are only part of the story. What is regarded by many Jews as God’s plan as laid down in Scripture is what matters most. On the other side,was established in late 1987 during an uprising against Israel’s occupation, as the resistance wing of the Islamic revivalist organisation, the Association of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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