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A Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank. Meron Benvenisti is convinced that a two-state solution in the Middle East is doomed to fail. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA Meron Benvenisti has been talking, writing and arguing about the Israel -Palestinian conflict for much of the last 40 years. Now aged 76 he is as forceful, articulate and unconventional as ever – and convinced that President Barack Obama is doomed to fail in his attempt to cajole the two sides to hammer out a solution at the negotiating table.
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“ PRES OBAMA: SAVE ISRAEL FROM ITSELF.” So proclaimed a sign at a demonstration in late March in Sheik Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem where activists gather every Friday to protest the eviction of Palestinian residents from their homes. Among the demonstrators was the Israeli novelist David Grossman, with whom I struck up a conversation about Barack Obama, who is not generally regarded as a popular figure in Israel these days, not least because of his public call for a halt to Israeli settlement activity. Some news sources have put his approval rating among Israelis as low as 4 percent. Grossman, of course, first sounded the call about the folly of the settlements decades ago, in his searing book The Yellow Wind . (More recently, he is among the dozens of prominent Israelis that have signed an open letter to Elie Weisel deploring the evictions in Sheik Jarrah.)
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De nombreuses forces politiques européennes, de la droite populiste à la droite traditionnelle, envisagent désormais le conflit israélo-palestinien comme l’une des composantes de la guerre de civilisation contre l’islam. Geert Wilders, le chef du parti populiste néerlandais qui est devenu la troisième force du pays aux élections législatives de juin, vient d’affirmer ses vues sur le conflit (« Geert Wilders : Change Jordan’s name to Palestine », Y-Net, 20 juin) : « Si Jérusalem tombe aux mains des musulmans, Athènes et Rome suivront. Ainsi, Jérusalem est la principale ligne de défense de l’Occident. Ce n’est pas un conflit sur le territoire, mais une bataille idéologique entre la mentalité de l’Occident libéré et l’idéologie de la barbarie islamique. » Il a donc proposé comme solution de... rebaptiser la Jordanie et de l’appeler « Palestine ».
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