Prof. Marc Gopin, a world-renowned peace expert is convinced that reconciliation is possible here too – but the Israeli left will have to challenge some of its core assumptions. Civilizations that once slaughtered each other have made peace – Jews and Muslims are no different, he says

What is happening before our very eyes could be viewed as an expansion of the Oslo Accords, but with a twist that would make former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin turn over in his grave and former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan gouge out his other eye

'The army stood by,' write journalists who see themselves as opponents of the occupation, saying the IDF 'has the legal and moral duty to protect Palestinians,' but the army cannot protect those whom it is oppressing