Why Middle East Peace Will NEVER Be Possible (warning).

[NoodleyAppendage]

A father grieves over the bodies of his three infant children murdered during an Israeli airstrike on Jan. 5th.

Question: If you were this father, could you find it in your heart to forgive those who murdered your children?

...and the cycle repeats as it has for a THOUSAND YEARS.

J

[DavidDvorkin]

1. More graphic images at this link:

http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2006/08/123-israeli-children-killed-by.html

[NoodleyAppendage]

2. As I mentioned a vicious cycle, but you posted a link to a 2000 Palestinian bombing.

Where are the Israeli child deaths during this recent incursion into Gaza by Israel? Link to Israeli child deaths in the last couple of years?

J

[Uzybone]

4. You just said the cycle repeats for a Thousand years

but yet you are asking about Israeli children who died in the past 2 weeks. You think the parents of th Israeli children who have been murdered by Palestinians will forget?

It goes both ways.

[NoodleyAppendage]

8. As I see it bombing a U.N. school murdering children is IMMORALLY EQUIVALENT to suicide bombing.

Just because the cycle goes on a thousand years doesn't mean that someone can claim moral superiority in the situation. Both Israeli and Palestinian are guilty and equivalent with the blood of children on their hands.

J

[anonymous171]

3. Someone needs to break the cycle of violence. nt

[NoodleyAppendage]

6. Easy for us to say as we're removed from the situation.

If I were that father of the three children murder just 3 days ago, I would feel as though I had nothing to live for and would be easily led to a path of revenge.

Bombing a U.N. school and murdering 30 children is (IM)MORALLY EQUIVALENT to a suicide bomber in a crowded bus. Neither party in this conflict can claim a moral "high ground."

[anonymous171]

10. Of course.

I would feel the same way. But somebody has to break the cycle if this conflict is to end.

[Kaleko]

5. This needs to be seen.

I have visited the Palestinian refugee camps some years ago and also spent time in Israel.

Words aren't gonna cut it here. Everyone needs to feel what is being done in our names by politicians.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. isn't it more like 2400 years? But your point is well taken

I think it is more complicated than you make it bur you do focus on the central issue.

[grassfed]

9. not for a thousand years

"As the Arabs see the Jews"
His Majesty King Abdullah,
The American Magazine
November, 1947

Summary: This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein’s grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the article, King Abdullah disputes the mistaken view that Arab opposition to Zionism (and later the state of Israel) is because of longstanding religious or ethnic hatred. He notes that Jews and Muslims enjoyed a long history of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, and that Jews have historically suffered far more at the hands of Christian Europe. Pointing to the tragedy of the holocaust that Jews suffered during World War II, the monarch asks why America and Europe are refusing to accept more than a token handful of Jewish immigrants and refugees. It is unfair, he argues, to make Palestine, which is innocent of anti-Semitism, pay for the crimes of Europe. King Abdullah also asks how Jews can claim a historic right to Palestine, when Arabs have been the overwhelming majority there for nearly 1300 uninterrupted years? The essay ends on an ominous note, warning of dire consequences if a peaceful solution cannot be found to protect the rights of the indigenous Arabs of Palestine.

Essay
http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/kabd_eng.html

[deaniac21]

11. The middle east has been war torn since the beginning of history.

Thank goodness Hamas would never intentionally hurt a non-combatant.

[NoodleyAppendage]

12. ...correction. Since the beginning of institutionalized religions. n/t

J

[anonymous171]

13. Tribalism predates institutionalized religions. nt

[NoodleyAppendage]

14. True. Point well taken. n/t

J