Monday Dec 10, 2007
Posted by Yehuda Hammer
Virtually all humans have ten fingers and ten toes. We are more similar than different. Perhaps this could be the basis for a peace settlement in Israel. Unfortunately people like to stress differences, rather than focusing on similarities. This leads to division and conflict.
Israel is made up of many groups. There are men and women, adults and children. There are Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druse. Within the Jewish people there are the religious and the secular. Within the religious community there are the orthodox and the ultra-orthodox. There are the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews. Then are also the Russians, Ethiopians, French, Americans, Moroccans, et cetera, et cetera. In Israel and in the world in general people like to label people and put them in boxes.
Some people think that religion and skin color is the basis for division, but it appears to me that people like to create divisions regardless of the similarity of a population. Perhaps by labeling groups it provides some order to the chaos of existence.
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joe jarmill Fresno calif USA: to the Great country of Israel and the citizens;rock on, i am a supporter of Israels right to survive as a nation and its citizens right to be able to go to sleep at night with out having to worry about those fools that are causing problems.those factions that attack Israel oughta attack the coward Iranians,Syrians,and who ever else that that they fancy.But they wont,because they are scared or were given hollow promises,they are jerks.
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Once my comments have been issued for several days here and deleted later, it's enough clear for me that I shouldn't have touched on a particular sensitive point.
Since then, my question was to understand why my comments had gotten a green light to be issued for weeks. Not to understand why they have been deleted later.
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