hope

http://thejc.com/articles/why-i-did-not-rally-israel

i believe israel has made a terrible mistake for precisely the reasons mr freedland expounds so eloquently. however, there are many anti zionists who are using this issue to hate jews, and that tears at my heart.

we are all human. we are all in pain right now, and none so much as the families of those innocent palestinians who have lost their lives . the fighting has to stop. - violence only spreads like poison - it benefits no one.

i fear that man is not able to turn from this primitive conditioning and to stop raisinng arms against his fellow man. history demonstrates that physical aggression is too embedded in mans psyche.
i see a long black tunnel stretching before us, and at the end more darkness . perhaps tomorrow this mood of despair will have lifted and i will catch that glimmer of light shining from the end which is so far from where i stand right now. but i fear that ultimately we may destroy humankind and this beautiful planet of ours. i weep for my children and my childrens children and all of my fellow man...

'Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies
hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction
of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. '

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.