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Friday Aug. 6, 2010 5:37 PM (EST+7)
Older Gazans recall Israelis, youth sees only army


Read more: perceptions, Israeli-Palestinian relations, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, post-conflict relations

RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (JMCC) - The last two decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has done more than change the landscape with checkpoints, walls and settlements, it has altered people's perceptions of the other side. Between generations the disparity in perceptions has become distinctly apparent.

From his ramshackle Gaza home, Palestinian Sobhi Hamami, 61, fondly recalls the 23 years he worked on an Israeli kibbutz, where he learned Hebrew, swam in the pool with Israeli friends and celebrated holidays with his Jewish boss.

His son Mohammed, 21, sees Israelis differently: They're the enemy, he says, without exception.

This generational split slices through families across Gaza, where older people remember when jobs in Tel Aviv and contact with Israelis were a short drive away, while those under 25 have grown up locked in, seeing little from Israel but fighter planes and bombs.

Israel has been tightening restrictions on who can leave Gaza for nearly two decades, finally imposing a strict blockade with Egypt when the Islamic militant group Hamas overran the territory in 2007...


Read more at the Associated Press...
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