Dome of the Rock from west (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Israel/Palestine conflict was not originally religious in nature. As recently as 50 years ago, major players on both sides were all secular and justified their territorial claims in terms of nationalism. Today, however, the loudest voices among Israelis and Palestinians alike express themselves in religious terms. Freidenreich will examine why religion played a marginal role early in the conflict, what has changed and what it may mean for the future and the prospects for peace.
http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=52&SubSectionID=78&ArticleID=22569
Related articles
- The Israeli settlers who make unlikely peace activists | Khaled Diab (guardian.co.uk)
- Hebrew University lecturer calls for expelling Palestinians as alien hostages in war against Muslims (alhittin.com)
- Exile and the Prophetic: Who speaks for ‘palestine’? (mondoweiss.net)
- Yes, there is an alternative (palestinemonitor.org)
- Labeling settlers – and their products (haaretz.com)
- When it’s quiet in Jerusalem the settler security cameras are still rolling (mondoweiss.net)
- Wiping Palestinians Off the Agenda – Wiping Palestine Off the Map (sabbah.biz)
- Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (falastinpress.wordpress.com)
Israel-Palestine 