Interview with a fascinating Jewish/Palestinian woman...
Listening to this in the car earlier...
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/lessons-jewish-mother-and-palestinian-mother/
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But as the daughter of a Palestinian father and a pro-Israel Jewish mother, Claire Hajaj's expertise on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is more personal.
On her mother's side, the shadow of Russian pogroms and Auschwitz's death camps fell over family history. Her father's family was in Jaffa when Zionist paramilitary groups arrived with tanks and mortars.
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"We have two people who are both obsessed with a story of loss, a story of conflict, of hate, of being drive out of homes, of having families scattered to the winds, of trying to rebuild their lives, and of looking back in pain and fear," she says. "This is the story of the Palestinians and the story of the Jews. I've heard both stories bitterly, angrily told to me throughout my childhood. How on Earth is a person supposed to choose between these stories?"
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Claire says that finding resolution and peace should not focus on righting all of the wrongs of the past and starting over from the beginning.
"That is simply not a possibility," says Claire. "I would prefer, rather than to talk about justice or about what we can do now not to make sure that our ancestors get justice, that our children have peace, freedom, and security."
She wrote a book, Ishamael's Oranges roughly based on her parents--
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ishmaels-oranges-claire-hajaj/1117926177?ean=9781780744940