The First Intifada convinced me that the time had come to complete the process of partition. I grew up believing that the Arabs beyond the Green Line – the Palestinians – were like the Israelis, and similarly wanted no more or less than did Zionism: the right to run their own lives and be masters of their own fate in part of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I grew up in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hakerem, where nobody voted Likud, and where nobody even imagined that right-wingers might be reasonable people. Perhaps more accurately: I grew up in the Ma’arach (Alignment – the predecessor of the modern Israeli Labor Party). An English language version is expected later this year. The following is a translated excerpt from Einat Wilf’s foreword to her new Hebrew language book, The War for Return, co-written with Adi Schwartz.
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