The news on television and radio over the past few days has been focused on violence in Israel. Palestinian young people stabbing/shooting Israelian citizens and in turn, being shot and killed by the Iraeli police. It goes on….day after day.
Palestinian young people, teenagers, now considered martyrs by their families. But they are dead. Isralian citizens, innocently waiting for a bus or walking down the street, now dead and mourned by their families. And it continues and the rhetoric continues and the violence continues and the deaths mount.
What on earth is going on here? Is this what happens when countries are "carved" out of areas already populated and historically considered part of some other country? Is this what happens when one tradition clashes with another? Is this what happens when people refuse to recognize traditions that they may share but concentrate on the issues/facts that divide them? Are there any answers for this? Who can help? Who can stop it? Who can help two peoples move on to a better future? Who can help two belief systems learn to share sites of spiritual importance to each of them?
I have no idea. But god…. this is so sad….. so very sad. And so much of it seems to be justified on the "word of God". So sad…. so very sad.
And seemingly so endless.
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