CHANGE

BBC’s latest on the war in Gaza:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7802851.stm

So… it’s easy to see and read that there are abundant opinions on this subject. Round and round and round the subject goes. But after a while you realize that you’re wasting your breath. Doesn’t matter what you think. Doesn’t matter who you think has a better argument for violence (how insane). We cannot change the agenda of politicians and world leaders, as much as we’d love to believe we can.

After 9/11 I got two responses. One was from a general pacifist. She was so stricken with sadness at the loss of human life. And then she said something I had never heard before. She said, “I’m just trying to figure out what kind of life you must be living, how desperate you must be to allow yourself to recede into such evil thought.” My other friend (we’re actually not friends anymore) sent out a mass email that we should bomb Palestine and not leave a single human being alive (she was reacting to footage showing Palestinians celebrating). Both are extreme positions. I could react to both and break down their arguments. Again… waste of relatively decent brain cells.

Some arguments on the subject become really venomous and uncouth.  Point is— I’m going to try and disengage. Even the experts can’t agree on how to solve the problem. And I’m not talking about politicians. They’re not experts. And the “experts” they choose aren’t experts either because they’re hired to tow the political line with “expert” credentials. I think the greatest minds, the only ones who may be able to solve the Palestinian/Israeli issue without engaging in subjective banter are the historians and academicians who have the knowledge to understand the intricacies of the situation (and this is about as intricate as it gets!). Otherwise, it’s a foolish and bloody stalemate, folks.