This is an excellent article. It follows an Israeli peace activist and a Palestinian peace activist who work together with a group that believes communication between Israelis and Palestinians is paramount to having a peaceful resolution.
What it does really well is highlight how the two of them talk past each other and don’t realize it – one of them makes an innocuous comment, and the other thinks it’s something bad but doesn’t speak up necessarily.
The article also provides really good perspective on how misinformation and fog of war are affecting the conflict. It highlights situations where Israelis are lied to and shown selective news, and where Palestinians are lied to and shown selective news.
Thought this was better suited as a comment – it mentions an incident which completely exemplifies the misinformation issue. Paraphrasing:
Some Palestinians were told that Hamas destroyed/liberated a prison. They celebrated in the streets, and were totally unawares that Hamas had committed a terror attack against Israeli civilians. When footage of this got to Israel, there was no context provided. The world thought that this was an open celebration of the civilian killings.
There was a propaganda campaign where Hamas omitted unsavory details to Palestinians, and a propaganda campaign where Israel portrayed every Palestinian as Hamas supporters to Israelis.
This just in: government creates propaganda to have their citizens hate Muslims so that they can wholesale slaughter citizens to get to the ‘terrorists that did this’
Now that we’re done with the look back at September 12, 2001 news segment let’s see what’s going on in this article.
Oh no.