If I decide on peace, have I forsaken my roots? Will my father hate me? Will he say I sided with the enemy? The enemy which stole his house and exiled him forever from the streets of his childhood? If I decide on peace, have I forsaken the struggle for justice? Will my friends hate me? Will they say I have surrendered to a sugar coated Western project?
And so I read a proverb today: If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. What should we be doing differently?
What areas are we all unwilling to consider? What are options that can change a 60 year old status quo? (Or has it been longer?)
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Yes, this is our dilemma.
While I definitely agree that now is as good a time as any to be asking ourselves the very questions you pose here, I've never ever believed in that proverb for the simple reason that it discounts *change* from the equation.
Now whether in fact history or the status quo has changed (whether evolved or devolved) sufficiently since the last attempt at the proverbially elusive ideal generally termed "Peace in the Region" for us to reasonably expect a new outcome is another matter altogether...
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