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As long as culture of hate is preached
Jul 05,2014 - Last updated at Jul 05,2014
Israelis have their own jihadist salafists, just like Jordanians, Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis.
Tragedies should not beget more tragedies. The murder of Palestinian boy Mohammed Abu Khdeir came in revenge for the murder of three young Jewish boys in Hebron, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Neftali Fraenkel.
The victims in both cases were not involved in any bloodshed that could justify holding them guilty in any way. But by their victimhood, a bitter poison will stay with many future generations in Palestine and Israel, preventing coexistence between the two peoples from ever materialising.
Completely shattered are the high hopes for a region full of prosperity and tranquillity as envisioned by the 1994 Wadi Araba Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel, or the Oslo Accords of 1993 between the Palestinian National Authority chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, or the Camp David Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979.
When King Hussein put his signature to the peace treaty, he reminded of the new European political and economic structure built by those who, a decade before, had been killing each other in the war ditches of French plains and German mountains, but who now were using the same factories that produced tanks to build skyscrapers and housing units for their new generations.
The culpability for what happened last week in Hebron and Jerusalem should not be laid on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
It is the culture of hate that demonises the other side and glorifies all attempts to annihilate the enemy.
Press reports indicate that the alleged perpetrators of the two heinous crimes are roughly in the same age bracket, carrying out a lone wolf operation, motivated by a racist hate culture that makes no room for a civilised concept of coexistence of the two peoples.
Many Israelis condemned that aggravating state of violence.
An uncle of Neftali Fraenkel said that the brutal murder of his nephew should not lead to more innocent Jews or Arabs being killed, since in the end, after years or decades, they all have to live together, and the fewer victims the better.
The conflict between Palestinians and Israelis has cost Israelis over 23,000 victims, according to Netanyahu in his independence day speech.
The Palestinians lost many more people.
It is most unlikely that a third Intifada will erupt, but lone wolf operations will be on the increase as preachers of the bullet are still in the command seat on both sides.