I stand with Israel, I stand with Palestine: No, wrong answer I say!
Building a one state, confederative, bi-national solution based on our common Abrahamic roots and spiritual brotherhood
[Author’s note: This cathartic essay was started on October 29th 2023, inspired by that Sunday’s Gospel readings. With no background in political science, a few months of reflection and research on a conflict that has continued to unravel unrelentingly, has provided the author an opportunity for a deeper understanding of the potential and shape for peace]
Pain is everywhere. Anger is brewing. Emotions rule us. And Peace sadly seems an impossibility.
It has been more than a few weeks now, since that Sunday morning sermon. All I can do is reflect with a heavy heart, and experience a constant surge of emotions driven by thoughts about a conflict does not want to go away. It is a feeling of irrelevance and of human incapability, but never a sense of cold, desensitized, and impassionate indifference. No, the conflict is real, inescapable fueled by a quotidian stream of news, updates, mass commentary. It is a real moment of fear, another disturbing chapter of human darkness.
This morning I saw my wife, a preschool teacher, crying after seeing images of innocent…
