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POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY ARE
never easy in the world’s most volatile
region, but the alternative is always
messier: In Syria, a quarter-million
dead since 2011. In war-torn Yemen,
millions going hungry. And in Israel,
the showcase for the choice between
talking and killing, killing is winning
again, with 37 dead in the space of
two weeks, most of them Palestinians.
Of the seven Jewish Israelis who died
through Oct. 14 in the latest spasm
of violence, a majority were slain
by kitchen knives, the only weapon
at hand for many Palestinians—the
newest wrinkle in a very old story.
The conflict that for decades accounted
for most of the trouble in
the Middle East has spilled back into
the streets, where passions replace
talking points and violence threatens
to once again pass for discourse.
It’s difficult to say where the new
violence will lead, but it’s taken two
distinct forms. The more familiar is
the daily protests at Israeli military
checkpoints. Young Palestinians throw
stones and burn tires at the heavily
reinforced gates built to confine
them. Israeli soldiers fire back. The
results are often lethal—at least five
Palestinians have been killed in such
clashes since Oct. 1—but the dynamic
is routine. This particular back-andforth
dates to 1987, when Palestinians
first took to the streets to “shake
off” Israel’s military occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the
territories they had retreated to after
losing conventional wars in 1948 and
again in 1967, when Israel stationed
the troops who are still there
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