Regarding Israel and Gaza, everybody is wrong. Everybody has been wrong for a long time. Everybody is screaming that they are more victimized than the other party, much like two children crying, “he hit me first.” All accomplishing nothing but escalation of the enmity.
In his autobiography, Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, sta…
Regarding Israel and Gaza, everybody is wrong. Everybody has been wrong for a long time. Everybody is screaming that they are more victimized than the other party, much like two children crying, “he hit me first.” All accomplishing nothing but escalation of the enmity.
In his autobiography, Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, stated that in 1968 he strongly recommended that the refugee camps in Gaza be eliminated completely. He proposed a specific plan that would resettle all Gazan refugees in the established towns of Gaza and the rest of Israel, aided by resources for housing and agricultural—all demonstrating the “goodwill and humane values” of Israel. He was shouted down, and Gaza was isolated as a kind of concentration camp, ironically. Inexorably, the hatred grew like a cancer that burst its capsule on October 7, 2023. The attacks were patently wrong, but we cannot dismiss the contribution to those attacks by decades of Palestinians being mistreated.
Everybody is wrong.
Minister Sharon once said that from a lifetime of experience he had learned that the long conflict between Jews and Palestinians was not about religion or culture or territorial boundaries. It was about two groups who could no longer talk with each other because they were in too much pain from their generational wounds and were no longer capable of loving each other. THIS is the real cause of all conflicts, whether in Israel or on campuses or anywhere else. While we are solving the important short-term problems of hostages, refugees, and military intervention, we must finally pay attention to the real underlying problem here: People do not know HOW to love each other, and until we as parents learn to love our children, and teach them how to love, the conflicts will continue—as we have all amply proven throughout history. But where to find this unconditional love? Go to RealLove.com and RealLoveParents.com, free websites dedicated to teaching us how to find and share love, even more specifically intended to teach parents how to unconditionally love and teach their children.
Regarding Israel and Gaza, everybody is wrong. Everybody has been wrong for a long time. Everybody is screaming that they are more victimized than the other party, much like two children crying, “he hit me first.” All accomplishing nothing but escalation of the enmity.
In his autobiography, Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, stated that in 1968 he strongly recommended that the refugee camps in Gaza be eliminated completely. He proposed a specific plan that would resettle all Gazan refugees in the established towns of Gaza and the rest of Israel, aided by resources for housing and agricultural—all demonstrating the “goodwill and humane values” of Israel. He was shouted down, and Gaza was isolated as a kind of concentration camp, ironically. Inexorably, the hatred grew like a cancer that burst its capsule on October 7, 2023. The attacks were patently wrong, but we cannot dismiss the contribution to those attacks by decades of Palestinians being mistreated.
Everybody is wrong.
Minister Sharon once said that from a lifetime of experience he had learned that the long conflict between Jews and Palestinians was not about religion or culture or territorial boundaries. It was about two groups who could no longer talk with each other because they were in too much pain from their generational wounds and were no longer capable of loving each other. THIS is the real cause of all conflicts, whether in Israel or on campuses or anywhere else. While we are solving the important short-term problems of hostages, refugees, and military intervention, we must finally pay attention to the real underlying problem here: People do not know HOW to love each other, and until we as parents learn to love our children, and teach them how to love, the conflicts will continue—as we have all amply proven throughout history. But where to find this unconditional love? Go to RealLove.com and RealLoveParents.com, free websites dedicated to teaching us how to find and share love, even more specifically intended to teach parents how to unconditionally love and teach their children.
Greg Baer
You are naive. Read the Koran.