The Children of Peace

How can anyone understand the madness that continues between Israel and Palestine? It is never just a matter of who has the biggest and largest amount of guns, soldiers and tanks, there is no military solution and we know walls built to keep others out eventually fail and are torn down. Retaliation is always the outcome, when a woman straps a suicide belt on and sacrifices her life in the mistaken belief that this will make a difference, what mindset and feeling of hopelessness must exist for someone to do this. When a family in Israel wake in the night to the explosive sound of an awkward scud missile killing family and friends the reaction of course is to launch another strike against the aggressor and then another and another.

In this concept of existence of the backwards and forwards exchange of hostility, anger, desperation there is no peaceful outcome, the war is never won or lost, it is always just under the surface awaiting the time to rise again. We are as humanity all connected and our peace is only as good as another's peace. The conflict between Israel and Palestine can be only changed by change in our own awareness.

So please read three short stories of the children of Israel and Palestine that might nudge you to change your paradigm of understanding forever.