Shards of hope amongst the horror
I have Jewish friends and treasured memories of growing up with unbreakable friendships with wonderful people of Jewish ethnicity. I am daily filled with sadness and anger about the evil that the Netanyahu government, the IDF and the ultra-Zionists are prosecuting against now not just the Palestinians but also Lebanese and Iranian peoples.
I have also some Palestinian and many Lebanese friends.
Shortly after the first Israeli attacks on Beirut, I rang one of my closest Lebanese mates to ask: ‘Did you lose any of your family or someone close?’
His reply: ‘None of my family, but one of my best friends lost 15 family members two nights ago.’ I told him that I consider what Israel is doing is a monstrous attack upon innocents.
He replied: ‘It’s not the Jews as such, it’s the Zionists, and they won’t ever stop’.
If decent Jews such as Prof. Pappe, Gideon Levy and others including the Jewish Council of Australia on one side and thoughtful others of (as a generalised term, Arab or Muslim) ethnicity who have not been brutalised beyond despair can look beyond the vile wrongs being done by/to them, there is yet hope.