It's been a while...

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Violence of the mind

I am thinking about the ong packed boats (packed with frustrated militants of hamas too in fact) that were blocked by Israel and I am just feeling an immense compassion for both sides (that are not opposed to each other but seen as separate entities) and for the violence applied. I do not like war by definition but I do support helping other persons, here materially. Gaza is a lager like it or not and nothing is done (enough at least) to help the people of Gaza, the people of Palestina and the people of Israel to cohabit ate peacefully. I was born with peace talks and will probably die with ever-going potentially peace talks for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There might not be good solutions that satisfy ALL parties, but there must be a way of at least not inflicting additional violence in an over heated situation. Then again on a rational level this is politics, and the PR of tsahal is doing a magnificent job in proving that they blocked the navy by their right, killed arms less persons that allegedly attacked them with knifes and bats. I am on neither side when it comes to this conflict. I have mates in both zones, and feel compassion for both suffering, the immense primary suffering of the Palestinians, the fear of Israel for being isolated in Islam dominant region. I do not think this is really about religion, even though the 3 monotheistic religions are by default in competition mode. I think it's about suffering and expressing major a revenge or jungle mode survival behavior. I condemn terrorist attacks, but terrorism is always defined by governments, never defined by activists. Peace!

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