The roof of the Israel Museum\u2019s Shrine of the Book was designed to resemble the lid of one of the jars in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found at Qumran. \u00a0We were here again just a few hours ago. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Since 1948, of course, there have been other wars, in 1956, in 1967, and 1973, and a state of almost permanent tension and fre\u00adquent military clashes between Israel and her neighbors. After the fighting of 1948 came to an end, the new Israeli state signed armi\u00adstice agreements with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. But the Arab states did not consider the war to be over. In their view, this was merely a lull in the fighting, and they often allowed various Pal\u00adestinian groups to use their territory as a staging area for raids into Israel. Eventually, in 1964 the Arab states, led by Egypt\u2019s Gamal Abdel Nasser, grouped these various Palestinian movements under one umbrella organization, which came to be known as the Pales\u00adtine Liberation Organization, or PLO. (The May 1964 meeting in which the PLO was formally established was held in the Interconti\u00adnental Hotel in what was then Jordanian-held east Jerusalem. This hotel, now known as the Seven Arches, is a landmark familiar to many Holy Land tourists even today) In its early stages, the PLO was basically a tool of the Arab regimes. It was first and foremost, perhaps, an instrument to control the Palestinians, to prevent them from trying to establish an independent state in Gaza and the West Bank; only secondarily was it designed to support them in their struggle against the Israeli occupation of their lands.<\/span><\/p>\nThe war of 1967, often referred to as the \u201cSix Day War,\u201d rein\u00adforced Israel\u2019s image as the almost invincible David who was con\u00adfronted by a bumbling Arab Goliath. At the same time, it redoubled Arab agony. Arab poets gave anguished voice to the sense of shame and humiliation that seized their people after the Six Day War. I quote from a poem entitled \u201cFootnotes to the Book of the Setback,\u201d by the Syrian writer Nizar Qabbani. It attacks the pompous postur\u00ading of Arab leaders, backed by no real achievements. It denounces them for taking their immense oil revenues and wasting the money on high living and corruption, rather than using it to fight and to rebuild the Arab nation. (Interestingly, in the early 1970s, in the oil boycott that hurt economies and created waiting lines at gas stations around the world, Arab leaders did eventually begin to use their petroleum resources as an effective weapon.) Qabbani\u2019s poem criti\u00adcizes Arab governments for their disunity, for the incessant bickering that allowed the Israelis to divide them and to conquer them. Not sur\u00adprisingly, the poem was banned throughout the Arab world. But as a result of that ban, it was secretly printed, smuggled into every Arab country, and committed to memory by thousands of angry Arabs.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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