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Is there a narrative
capable of bridging, reconciling, and embracing the two vigorously competing
narratives of Palestinians and Israelis from before 1948, but also
incorporating the signal events of 1948, 1967, 1973, and 2001? At the first
of two meetings in 2003, scholars and writers from Palestine, Israel,
Britain, and the U.S. argued about whether bridging narratives were useful
and/or possible, whether the different myths were responses to or
antecedents of the current conflict, and about the essential facts and
reconstructions of the challenging events in their common and intertwined
lives. A report on the heated first meeting of the group is contained in
Deborah West, Myth and
Narrative in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, WPF Report 34
(Cambridge, MA, 2003).
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