Switching places…

how did this happen?

The mentality that brought us the holocaust is alive and well. Palestinians have replaced Jews the IDF the Nazis. How did this happen?

Israelis believe they’re incapable of behaving like Hitler’s Nazis. Such a belief is born of arrogance, that Jews are somehow the exception to everyone else.

We’re all capable of behaving like Nazis and to believe otherwise is to render oneself blind. This is the trap of hubris. From a spiritual perspective this is a serious problem because our belief obscures the truth. To not be aware of what we are all capable leads to terrible suffering, which is reflected in society.

As long as Western democracies share this belief — that Israelis are incapable of inflicting on others what was inflicted on them — war crimes and crimes against humanity — they will not see the carnage and suffering of the Palestinians. They will continue to live from the myth Israel portrays to the world, of victims, besieged on all sides by angry dangerous Arabs who hate them. “Arabs fire rockets into Israel because that’s just what terrorists do.”

Do we really believe this nonsense?

In the interest of truth, consider some facts.

Palestinians are not stealing anyone’s land, they have no army, they have no rights and no passport. Their lives are at risk, terrible risk. No army in the world kills as many women and children as the Israelis. For every 50 Israelis who die a 1000 Palestinians will die. In Gaza there are 1.8 million people, 800,000 are children and most are malnourished.

What does it take for us to see the importance of truth? What will it take for us to tell the truth and hear the truth? No single point of view is right the other person’s wrong. Points of view are never the same, how can they be? When we examine all points of view, become aware of them as being equally relevant and equally true, we approach the truth. In the presence of truth understanding arises. Peace is a byproduct of understanding.