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We debate if the high-profile Jerusalem synagogue massacre by PFLP militants may be a sign of the re-emergence of leftist armed organizations worldwide.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist group, has claimed responsibility for the Synagogue attack in Jerusalem on 18 November 2014. The group was established as a response to Israel’s 1967 occupation of West Bank by Israel and is described as a terrorist organization by the US, Canada and the European Union. During the 1970s, PFLP was associated with many international Marxist militant groups such as the Japanese Red Army, and Germany’s Baader Meinhof organization. These left-wing armed groups were very active in the 1970s and 1980s but faded away with the decline of the PFLP and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be feed by confrontational discourses. Do you think this attack on the Jewish community can be considered part of a new trend in revolutionary movements, or is it another example of attack motivated by ethnic or religious hatred?
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The story is much more complicated than that, on both sides. In Egypt, Israeli agents were behind some of the anti-Jewish violence to bring in fresh immigrants. In the Arab World, Jordan granted a large number of refugees citizenship, while the remaining Arab countries gave them full rights. Only in Lebanon, where the Christian population is weary of demographic changes, Palestinians were deprived of basic rights, like work and property ownership. I think these rather silly narratives of what happened, on both the Palestinian and Jewish sides, are defunct. The matter of fact is we need a solution, and that should be based on the pre 1967 war borders. There is no need for more war and violence in this region.
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The uprooting of arabs was - is as tragic as that of sephardite forced immigration from Arab countries and Iran that followed the war of 1947. The difference is one side absorbed its share of refugees (both arabs and jews) and gave them full citizenship. Other countries preferred to keep the (poor) palestinian refugees deprived of state and status because it suited their national agenda best.
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