Faisal Husseini

摘要

"Sooner or later," said Faisal Hus-seini in an interview last year, "my people will stop listening to clowns like me who preach coexistence and peace." Fundamentalism—Islamic, nationalist and Jewish—was waiting in the wings to take over, and take over it did, in both Palestine and Israel, after the intifada broke out towards the end of the year. On June lst, the day of Mr Husseini's funeral, the omnipresent Israeli police sensibly evacuated themselves from East Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Palestinians saw him off with high honour to his tomb on Haram es Sharif, facing the Dome of the Rock. But that evening, a young Palestinian blew himself up outside a Tel Aviv discotheque, taking 20 Israeli youngsters with him.