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“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is also a cultural and religious clash”

2023-02-02T19:30:20.617Z


BIG INTERVIEW - As a new cycle of violence opens between Israel and Palestine, the historian returns to the origins of the conflict in a fascinating book *. From the 1920s, the confrontation took on the appearance of a clash between two types of societies, he recalls.


LE FIGARO.

- Friday, January 27, a synagogue in Jerusalem

was the target of an attack that killed seven civilians

.

This attack comes the day

after operations by the Israeli army against Islamic Jihad in the West Bank

, but also on the day of international commemorations for the victims of the Holocaust and at the time of prayer.

What does the choice of the date of this terrorist act reveal?

Georges BENSOUSSAN.

-

I do not believe that there is a link between the international day of commemoration of the Holocaust on January 27 and the passage to the act of the assassin.

Especially since in Israel, the commemoration of the Holocaust does not take place on January 27, but takes place in April - it is one of the three days of solemn commemoration with the day of Remembrance of dead soldiers. for the existence of the Jewish state and the Independence Day immediately following it.

It is quite possible, that said, that the events in Jenin that occurred the day before precipitated the passage to the act...

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Source: lefigaro

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