＜ 1. the book ＞
I introduce voices of people living in
Israel and Palestine where the conflict continues, several times.
My reference comes from the books
reported on the actual place.
"Seeing the Middle East and Arab
world in films" finished.
The book
This book was published in 2003.
The book's title means "would talk
about own honest feeling".
The author is Yagi Kenji, photographer, is
addressing the Palestinian issue, and interviewed 100 people locally.
In the book, he introduces voices of Muslim
and Judaist, the will of an Israeli refusenik or a Palestinian suicide bomber.
He does 15 common questions to 45 youths
and the readers can understand their thought about the conflict.
The targets of the questions are 25 men, 20
women, 22 Judaist of Israeli, 21 Muslim of Palestinian, 2 persons from other
religion, and their age is 15-25 years old.
I choose five cases from the questions,
summarize the result and introduce my impression and the background in twice.
A note, total number of people isn't equal
to total number of the answers because the answers to the questions have the
plural number.
＜ 2. Israel and autonomous Palestinian areas ＞
Black dashed line indicates the cease-fire
line in 1949, green part does the autonomous Palestinian areas, cream part does
Israeli territory, and many triangle marks are Israel forces garrisons.
Question, " What do you think religion? Do you think that God exists?"
Something seeing from the answers
Their religious devotion is fervent, and
all the Palestinians believe in God.
This may be caused by Palestinian is
earnest Muslim, and in addition, their religious devotion is deep when the
society becomes hopeless.
Four Israelis occasionally doubt God and
think that God may bring an evil.
As Israel becomes dominant and rich, the
young feels war-weariness from the protracted conflict.
＜ 3. the conflict and change
of the territory ＞
4 pictures are arranged in order of the
following titles from the top, the First Middle East War in 1948, Israeli
territory (white) keeps spreading, and the Fourth Middle East War in 1973.
The bottom map shows the autonomous
Palestinian areas of the current West Bank.
The red lines show the separation barrier
described in mentioned "the other son", and many blue points are the
Jewish settlement that keeps increasing.
Question, "What is the war?"
Something seeing from the answers
The most of them consider in common that
the war is an evil and due to a stupid act objectively.
I feel that they have a feeling of
war-weariness from a lot of the answers.
I think that they together come to regard
themselves as the victims by the war and terrorism, during half a century from
beginning of the war.
However, some Palestinians think they
should continue the war for justice.
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Question, " Who is in fault
concerning the war during this 50 - 100 years? "
Something seeing from the answers
I was surprised they one-sidedly don’t
consider each antagonist in fault.
The answers indicating this are 11 cases of
Palestinians, and 17 cases of Israelis, and this tendency is strong in Israeli.
I include "both side's fault, no
comment, obscurity, all the members, a fate, and nobody's fault" in the
answers.
The second most answers of Palestinian are
8 cases of neighboring countries (Arab, radicals, Jordan, Iran, Iraq), next 6
cases of the U.S.A, 5 cases of the U.K., and 3 cases of Israel.
There was not Palestinian answering own
country is in fault.
The reasons that I suppose
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The Arab countries began the Middle
East war, but they suffered a crushing defeat and recognized Israel with
forsaking Palestine.
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The neighboring countries only arrange
everything to suit their own convenience, and don’t rescue Palestine. Jordan of
the east side seems to have been regarded that way in particular. And the
oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia close to the United States, after
all, it brings benefits to Israel.
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Various radicals repeat terrorism and
let the conflict spread, but the neighboring countries (including Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Iran) support each radical separately.
l
The United States performed various
interventions in the Middle East and the Islam zone (Arab and Afghan) more than
half a century and planted the war and confusion.
l
The U.K. established a border in the
Middle East after the World War I without permission, and finally escaped when
it became problems.
The second most answers of Israeli are 2
cases of Arab, 2 cases of anti-Judea, 2 cases of Europe and America (include
the U.K.), and next 1 case of the own country.
There wasn’t person answering Palestine is
in fault.
I was surprised there is the anti-Judea in
the answers.
When the world criticizes the severe act of
Israel, they seem to consider it as age-old discrimination against Jew
(anti-Judea).
Israel became more and more high-handed
(the right wing) since Prime Minister Rabin (winning Nobel Peace prize) of the
moderates was assassinated in 1995 by the Jewish young man objecting to the
peace.
As one of the outcome, the separation
barrier began to be made in the West Bank since 2002, and the total extension
becomes 700km now.
In contrast, the United Nations did censure
resolution, and there is certain American Jew group that stood up to have to
correct such Israeli excessive act.
The young of the both sides don’t blame the
responsibility of the war on each other, and consider that the causes are due
to both sides, Arabic neighbor countries, and European and American.
This continues next time.
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