It All Comes Back To The Occupation

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Mairav Zonszein and Noam Sheizaf come to that conclusion after seeing some skirmishes inside Israel's tent protests:

The events surrounding these two tent camps—the Kahanists and Tent 1948—convey an important lesson for those who wish to carry the social justice message forward in the months and years to come: Dealing with the relationship between Arabs and Jews, past, present, and future, is simply unavoidable. Every aspect of life in this country—from the distribution of resources to more trivial matters like food, music, and outdoor activities—contains elements of the Jewish-Palestinian relationship in it. In the words of Israeli poet Meir Ariel, "at the end of every sentence in Hebrew, even one beginning in Russia or in Hollywood, sits an Arab."

Sheizaf previously examined the Arab street's reaction to the omnipresent tent slogan "walk like an Egyptian."

(Photo: Border policemen stand guard under lights decorating the Damascus Gate on during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan August 8, 2011, outside the old city of Jerusalem, Israel. By Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)