The deadly Israeli-Palestinian entanglement is a means to attaining the sense of significance and mattering over which the parties are locked in a deadly struggle.
Yet it is about significance that both downtrodden peoples, the Jews and the Palestinians, have quested for.
Land, as such, is a fungible commodity interchangeable with cash; in fact, it was sold in large quantities by Palestinian Arabs to Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the first half of the 20th century. But sovereignty over territory carries a much deeper and symbolic value as a means to significance, which cannot be replaced by material means.
The Palestinian reaction was, of course, different. They summarily rejected the UN partition resolution that called for dividing the land of Palestine between the two peoples, and opted again for a violent path to honor.
In Oslo, Arafat made a solemn commitment to Israel"to renounce the use of terrorism and other acts of violence… prevent violations and discipline violators." Nonetheless, he kept “the gun,” just in case the “olive branch” failed to deliver. Both he and his successors continued to use violence and peace talks intermittently for gains in the dispute.
In the context of Middle East peacemaking, it was only after Egypt, through its successful surprise attack on Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, reaffirmed its honor and significance —that President Anwar El-Sadat was ready to pay a historic visit to Jerusalem that resulted in the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, holding to this day.
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