PETERS – No end in sight to the horrific cycle of killing in the Middle East
BACK IN MY UNIVERSITY YEARS, I had a professor who had returned to teach in Canada after spending years in Israel and the West Bank, working for a relief organization.
I remember vividly someone asking him his thoughts on a potential solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, which was raging just as intensely then as it ever has.
My professor replied that, unless you have spent considerable time in Israel, you can’t even properly understand the conflict, let alone begin to think about solutions.
I have not spent any time in that part of the world and far more educated people than me have failed to come up with solutions after decades of trying.
It’s not clear to me whether we should end up on Team Israel or Team Palestine.
Both sides have compelling claims to legitimacy and both sides have also done terrible things to the other.
What is clear is that the true enemy to both of these sides should be the type of violence and death that the world saw last weekend and in the days since.
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
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The Holocaust changed things for the Jewish people. Some six million of them were slaughtered. The world, for the most part, stood by until Europe and the concentration camps were liberated.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered for his role in World War 2 especially in that he told his men who liberated the camps to collect testimony and film and photograph everything, because “the day will come when some son of a bitch will say this never happened.”
“Never again” has been the feeling of the Jewish people since the Holocaust. That’s something maybe we don’t understand here in the Western world or most other places either.
To draw a parallel to the deaths from toxic drug supplies in BC to what is recently happening in Israel and the West Bank is quite a stretch.
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