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There was a time when it was possible for Jews and Arabs to live together peacefully in Palestine and to intermarry. Both groups are Semites and share more similarities than they have been willing to acknowledge. Not anymore. Now those who try to cross the line have to pay a heavy price that sometimes costs them their life as has been the case of the actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis who was killed earlier this month.
 
The son of a Jewish mother and a Palestinian father who married during the British mandate over Palestine, Juliano lived many lives. He served in the Israeli army as a paratrooper. But he soon rebelled. The Israeli army is not a congenial place for those like Juliano who saw themselves as “100 percent Palestinian and 100 percent Jewish.” He resented the discrimination against Palestinians he witnessed at a checkpoint, refused to obey an order, was imprisoned and eventually discharged.

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