The rift between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians is unsurprisingly huge, when one considers the current escalation. There is a lot of resentment on either side. It seems to me that we all have an obligation to Humanize the conflict to both sides, who are unable to see the other side. Rockets did not change Israeli policy, Missiles did not stop rockets. Walls did not stop the problems, and fundamentalist Islam, nor orthodox nationalist Judaism brought anyone closer to a better life. Nor did it help to deny Jews the right to live in Palestine, or Palestinians their right of history. There was no nobility in any of the wars and conflicts. So there are people on both sides, the silent majority who wants a better life. Now where some are trying to declare that the other side is not human, that they are ferocious beasts because they are Jews, or because they are Arabs, child-killers, and murderers of innocents, we have to insist on trying harder still to likewise insist on confronting first our demons and then our inability to talk (to each other) and act on it.
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