The Palestine-Israel nightmare won’t end until we accept these basic truths | Ahmed Moor

The Palestine-Israel nightmare won’t end until we accept these basic truths | Ahmed Moor

After 100 years of brutality against the Palestinians, we may have a chance to redirect history. But policymakers have refused to recognize reality

History is long, and short. For many supporters of Israel, history appears to have commenced on 7 October 2023. For me, and for many others steeped in the acid bath of Palestine-Israel, history is a long brine. Conversations with ourselves begin to change in texture. In time, our arguments are prone to spoilage.

As a Palestinian American who has lived in both Gaza and the West Bank and has observed the unfettered encroachment of settlements first-hand, I’ve long been a proponent of a single shared state in Palestine-Israel – an idea that many have rejected as unworkable. Now, as we observe what scholars have described as a genocide in Palestine, the question resolves to whether it’s even thinkable for Israeli Jews and Palestinians to live as fellow citizens in a shared society.

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