There are millions on either side of the Palestine-Israel conflict who earnestly yearn for peace. There will be no peace if one side wipes the other out. From Quoth the Raven at quoththeraven.substack.com:
To me, I don’t see people fighting for causes; I see broken individuals incapable of being at peace with their sense of self, which to me is where true calm, respect for others, and peace comes from.
If there’s one takeaway I have from witnessing the discourse over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s that nuance is an absolute necessity when discussing it, yet nobody seems able to exercise even a modicum of nuance while doing so.
Because the issue is complex, polarizing, and demands reasoned thought, I’d like to start off my piece today by offering a sentiment that hopefully everyone can agree on: I pray to God that this isn’t the start of World War III.
However, as the days over the last several weeks have gone by, I find there’s less and less to be optimistic about — and I’m not talking about as it relates to the stock market, I’m talking about as it relates to humanity.
Like all problems stemming from deep threaded conflict and a necessity for complex, intellectual reasoning and compromise, I fear this one will only worsen until it reaches some type of point of no return.
The scenes on Sunday of a mob at an airport in Dagestan, surrounding an airplane and reportedly searching for Jewish people arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, were a new type of horrifying. It appears as simply a modern day pogrom.
