“This was the “order of things” in which we grew up: We were “The Communities on the Seam Line,” they were “The Communities of the Triangle” – completely different names for neighboring com-munities sometimes adjacent to each other. Despite the immediacy of our being neighbors, it was as if the two populations belonged to two opposed magnetic fields: the Jews, who belong to the coastal plain region, are perceived as those with the task of “stitching” that land to Samaria; the Palestinians belong to the focal point from which their identity emanates: the Triangle of Nablus – Jenin – TulKarm, over the Green Line. All of them, Jews and Arabs, are citizens of the State of Israel, but there is a gaping abyss between them.”
from the Introduction to the book Sharing the Promised Land by Shuli Dichte
