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<blockquote data-quote="Nandina" data-source="post: 764307" data-attributes="member: 23742"><p>I think lovemysons heard from Esther on Facebook. Maybe she can get a hold of her again.</p><p></p><p>It is getting to where I can barely watch the news about the war. It is breaking my heart as I’m sure it does for most people.</p><p></p><p>Yet I feel the need to so that I don’t become complacent and numb to the sheer inhumanity that has been brought upon innocent civilians in all of Israel, whether they be Israelis, Palestinians, or any other group of human beings. And those of us in the rest of the world, watching, suffer along with them, but we are helpless to stop it.</p><p></p><p>It is a horrible feeling just being a bystander, for lack of a better word. Because only as observers of tv news and videos are we able to see this unspeakable trauma, unfolding. I cannot fathom what it must be like to live there right now. (Freudian slip, I just typed “I cannot fathom what it must be like to <em>love</em> there right now.”)</p><p></p><p>I don’t wish to be political or in any way controversial.</p><p></p><p>But I pray, and hope you will join me if you are so inclined that at some point, we can love our neighbors despite our political, religious, or ethnic and racial differences.</p><p></p><p>It should be so simple, shouldn’t it? It’s in all the great religious books. Love thy neighbor.</p><p></p><p>Why do they make it so damn hard?</p><p></p><p>Comments welcome. Please keep them clean and kind.</p><p></p><p>Nandina</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nandina, post: 764307, member: 23742"] I think lovemysons heard from Esther on Facebook. Maybe she can get a hold of her again. It is getting to where I can barely watch the news about the war. It is breaking my heart as I’m sure it does for most people. Yet I feel the need to so that I don’t become complacent and numb to the sheer inhumanity that has been brought upon innocent civilians in all of Israel, whether they be Israelis, Palestinians, or any other group of human beings. And those of us in the rest of the world, watching, suffer along with them, but we are helpless to stop it. It is a horrible feeling just being a bystander, for lack of a better word. Because only as observers of tv news and videos are we able to see this unspeakable trauma, unfolding. I cannot fathom what it must be like to live there right now. (Freudian slip, I just typed “I cannot fathom what it must be like to [I]love[/I] there right now.”) I don’t wish to be political or in any way controversial. But I pray, and hope you will join me if you are so inclined that at some point, we can love our neighbors despite our political, religious, or ethnic and racial differences. It should be so simple, shouldn’t it? It’s in all the great religious books. Love thy neighbor. Why do they make it so damn hard? Comments welcome. Please keep them clean and kind. Nandina [/QUOTE]
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