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This quote simply explains the complexity of the situation in the Holy Land as I would like to call it between the Israeli's and Palestinians. It took me quite a while to put
... thoughts into words while exploring ideas.
It's a great difficulty to come as a foreigner
because until their experiences become also my own,
until I can place myself in their shoes
I will never fully understand either the side of the Israeli (mainly Jews) or Palestinian (mainly Muslim with 2% Christians).
Each side has its own narrative: both people claim to the same land where Israeli's claim through biblical reference as they have been exiled from their land for over 2000 years since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Empire. Palestinians claim to the land because of their past residency before the UN decided the fate of Palestine as two states: an Arab and Jewish state.
Their narratives are beliefs that can't be comprised and from there the Arab-Israeli war and conflict continues as the young state of Israel of 64 years clings to its identity. Both sides share experiences of suffering and pain as I heard from a Palestinian man who lost his father when an Israeli soldier shot him for no valid reason and an Israeli man who lost his son in the Lebanon war.
this experience of loss and suffering inevitably brought them together
as one voice they understand the OTHER.
they used that united voice to speak of peace
in their words of suffering overcome by hope I realized
intangible peace is calls for experiences of intangile means.
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