Louise Hewlett Nixon
Professor, Stanford University
Huffington Post, 10/14/2015
If what we see going on in
Israel-Palestine is not yet a third Intifada, one may not be far off. As
presented in the mainstream press, the stabbings of Israeli settlers, the
rock-throwing, the mass uprisings, all seem chalked up to some inexplicable
proclivity toward violence on the part of Palestinians. Nothing could be
further from the truth. The fact of the matter is that this wave of violence
comes in response to an on-going campaign to desecrate and destroy holy sites
that anchor non-Jewish peoples to their faiths -- not only are mosques being
destroyed, so too are Catholic churches.
