All of that is true, and the trauma inflicted on Palestinians needs to be acknowledged by those who defend Israel- who, at the same time, need to acknowledge the trauma that the status quo is inflicting on Israelis- how healthy can it be, for example, for Israeli-Jewish parents and teachers to keep teaching their children the paranoid delusion that everyone else in the world wants them dead?
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.