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Time For Peace In The Middle East
Peace is extended, not imposed.
You cannot extend peace with guns, rockets, tanks or any other means of violence.
You use violence (war) to impose defeat — not peace.
To extend peace requires an open heart, not a closed fist.
What is it about the obvious that the men with guns in the Middle East don’t get?
The conflict in the Middle East has been going on since the 1920s, with increasing levels of violence or warfare from 1948 onwards.
What’s going on there is definitely not about peace. It’s about the other p word: power.
It’s action driven by ideology not compassion or understanding.
Why else would Hamas provoke an Israeli bombardment on Gaza by firing thousands of rockets into Israel?
How many Palestinians have to lose their lives this time? For what?
Hamas has no prospect of winning a military conflict with Israel.
And, let’s not get the idea that Israel is blameless here either.
Gaza is the largest prison on earth.
There’s a wall between Israel and the West Bank.