A Collapsing Infrastructure Is a Starting Point in Most Arab Cities, and the Government Is Not Managing to Find the Means or Cultural Sensitivity to Address It, New Study Finds
Jerusalem Post: “We are of the same race and blood, and cooperation will bring great prosperity to the land,” wrote Emir Faisal to Felix Frankfurter in 1917. Faisal was known for his affinity to the Zionists who had begun streaming to the Holy Land; in 1919, he signed a cooperation agreement with Chaim Weizmann, to whom he wrote that he was “mindful of the racial kinship and ancient bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people.”
But Faisal’s proclamations of kinship with the Jews were more than lip service to a commonly held belief, says Tsvi Misinai, who knows perhaps more about the origins of the modern Palestinians than anyone. “Faisal’s paternal line was Hashemite,” he says, “meaning he was directly descended from Muhammad.
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Gaza rocket kills Israeli child as Arab-Jewish violence rages in Israel
(JTA) A rocket from Gaza killed a 5-year-old child in the Israeli city of Sderot, bringing Israel’s death toll to seven in its exchange of fire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In Gaza, 83 people have died, including 14 children, according to Save the Children, an aid group with a Gaza office. In addition, four Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank this week.
Alongside the fighting between Israel and Hamas, several people have been wounded in clashes that have raged inside Israel between crowds of Arabs and Jews. The fighting appears to be the worst internal Arab-Jewish violence the country has experienced in decades.