Nobel Laureate William Faulkner once wrote that “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Nowhere are Faulkner’s words more true today than in the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
This week’s chapter of Fallout considers the long durability of injustice and violence and asks what it might take to move toward peace in a region where – more than any hope for the future – it is the tragedies of the past that define the present.
With speakers granted anonymity to express themselves freely, here’s chapter 4 of Fallout: The Past is Never Dead.
This series was produced and edited by University of Illinois Journalism Professor Charles “Stretch” Ledford. Interviews were conducted by U of I Journalism students Will Charlton, Nathan DeHaan, Elizabeth Kelly and Faith Lee.