FLASH
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There has not always been war between Israelis and Palestinians. There was a period in the second half of the nineties, when I was a correspondent in Jerusalem, in which the peace process initiated by Rabin and Arafat gave great hope and atmosphere between two peoples called by history to share the same land, it was peaceful.
My Palestinian co-worker regularly left Ramallah, the capital of the Arafat-ruled West Bank Autonomous Territories, to drive with his girlfriend and swim at the beach in Tel Aviv, then stop for dinner on the beach.
Many Israelis went shopping in the West Bank because the products were cheaper. More than a hundred thousand Palestinians a day left Gaza to work in various Israeli locations. And Christian pilgrims, after visiting the Holy Sepulcher within the walls of the Old City, would take a bus or taxi to see the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Tourism was booming, the future looked promising, the creation of a Palestinian state ready to live in peace and mutual security alongside Israel seemed imminent.
It doesn't matter who was most responsible for the failure of this project and the return (unfortunately, quite quickly: while I was still living in Jerusalem) to terrorism and war.
But my memories show that a solution to the conflict is possible, despite the extremists pushing for it. However, both an Israeli leader and a Palestinian leader must want to reach a solution. It takes two to tango, as the old joke goes, and also to make peace between enemies. / Enrico Franceschini-Bota.al
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