They are horrible to us! they hate us so much, they don’t
think of us as humans. It is so deep in them, this hatred; it is very naïve of
us to think that we can be at peace with them, that one day we can have a normal
relationship with them.
They kill our people indiscriminately, they don’t care if
they are killing a young boy or girl, an old man or women, a mother, a disabled
person, a pregnant woman
Their hate blinds them so much they just want to wipe us, all of us, out!
Their hate blinds them so much they just want to wipe us, all of us, out!
And just look at them ..whenever they had the chance to have
power over us, they tormented us. They ethnically cleansed their lands of
us, they disposed us ...humiliated us!
The only language they understand is power and force. We
have to be careful not to get fooled thinking that we can ever have real peace
with them, they want more, they want us out, all of us out. They can’t conceive
any form of coexistence with us and we can’t coexist with them!
These are virtually the same sentiments, thoughts, words that
I get from my friends and acquaintances across the political, religious and
ethnic spectrum.
This is what I hear and read from most Jews and Israelis thinking
of Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims and, not surprisingly, an identical, word for
word, emotion for emotion to what I get from most Palestinians, Egyptians,
Muslims, Arabs, etc.
Perhaps awareness of the mutuality of anxiety, anger, uncertainty, fear
and sadness driven from these ideas and thoughts of the other, awareness of how identical they are, and the mirror image on the other side can
open some eyes, a small hope for peace in this large sadness of war, fear and
hopelessness.
AA
November 18, 2012