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I viewed a woman on TV whose son was a Hamas hostage. The last image she saw of him was him being brutally taken away with fellow civilians to an unknown place. One of his arms was a bloody stump. She did not know if he was alive or dead. She said grimly that those who are going through what she is are on a different planet from the rest of us living in relative safety — living a normal life.
Yes, we are on a different planet than countless Israelis and Palestininas. My world hasn’t been torn apart. However, ironically it is these two enemies who share such a planet. Their people are struggling to survive. They have witnessed the violent death of dear ones including their children. Their existence is horrific.
Benjamin Franklin said “there never was a good war, or a bad peace.” Sometimes war is necessary, but it is not good. Not only the wicked suffer but so inevitably do the innocents. War leaves behind carnage and destruction. But peace, blessed peace is like heaven itself. Harry Stack Sullivan, a 1900s psychiatrist, said, “we are all much more simply human than otherwise.” We must hold onto the shred of humanity that transcends the evil in the world.
Reesa Greenberg
Bangor
