I wrote a note on facebook this morning because I wanted to frame an editorial I was posting that my dad wrote. Out came some anguish I've been carrying for the past few weeks and now I feel compelled to post it on my blog as well.
My thoughts on this subject are short but concise. Confused but heartfelt. Posted below my comments is the editorial my dad wrote.
This article doesn't even begin to go into the unfathomable treatment of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis. I have spent the last couple of months reading about the Holocaust and the fact that a people who claim the worst genocide in history could turn around and subject another people to decades of oppression baffles me to no end. I ache and ache for the Palestinians, and hope with all my heart that this "conflict" will be over soon. But I also hurt for the Jewish people of Israel, who have become so twisted and fierce as to believe that something constructive might come of their blowing other people all to hell. How do they not see the parallels between them and the Nazis? How is useless killing ever different, ever honorable and right, no matter what guise it is under?
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jan/06/going-blind-in-gaza/
2 comments:
I appreciate your small voice. Keep blogging.
Very important thoughts and questions here. Thanks for sharing them.
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