イスラエル／パレスチナ和平

先日のキブツ襲撃（５名死亡。うち２人は子供）の事件は、
話を知れば知るほど「悲劇」という感じがします。

例のイスラエル／パレスチナ間にフェンスを作るという構想について、
このキブツの住民は大反対していたそうです。
というのは、そのフェンスによって、近隣のパレスチナ人の村が引き裂かれるから。
そこで、「もっとフェンスを我々のほうにして、周囲の村落に迷惑をかけるな」
と、近隣アラブ村の住民と一緒にデモを行っていたとか。

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1036987683157
Kibbutz's belief in co-existence hindered security fence

A month prior to the attack, Metzer spokesman Dov Avital told the Post that "it's unnecessary to move the fence eastward. After all, in the end, when there is a permanent agreement, the border will be here, on the Green Line. We have no territorial claims on Kafin. So why cause all this hardship now? Why create bitterness and rage that will destroy the relationships we have built and will lead to more terrorists and more death on both sides?"

その話からもわかるように、このキブツは、
パレスチナ人とユダヤ人の共存を目指そうと常に努力していたらしい。
で、その動きの中心にいた人が、 殺害された一人であるYitzhak Dori氏。
彼の葬儀には近隣の村から多数のアラブ人が列席した。
葬儀ではキブツのメンバーらが、
「それでも我々はアラブ人との平和共存を信じる」と決意を表明。

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1036987682890
We will not cease to believe in coexistence, in compromise, in giving'

s secretary of this 50-year-old Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz, Dori was active in the community's struggle to coexist with local Arab villages on both sides of the Green Line despite ongoing tensions. Prominent among the mourners were several dozen Arabs from neighboring villages.

"Cry, beloved country, for the coexistence that has been harmed so deeply," eulogized kibbutz coordinator Doron Leiber. "For a life of belief. We will not cease to believe in coexistence, in compromise, in giving."

"The Arabs here at this funeral - especially our neighbors from Kafr Misr - are the answer to those murderers."

You expected peace and believed that it was close," she said to the open grave, "but you will never know peace in your lifetime. When I heard you talk politics, you were always so optimistic, innocent, and determined. You believed that everything would be OK in the end. I can not believe that you are not here - that you won't see the dream realized."

なんか、こういう話を聞くと、本当につらい。