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In reply to the discussion: I'm not sure I like it here any more. [View all]Leith
(7,813 posts)because I won't participate.
Both sides have legitimate grievances. Both sides have committed atrocities. Both sides are full of hate, anger, and the need for revenge. Both sides are hurting - it is a pain that can never be vanquished.
I can't take sides.
Now, if the gentle reader has come this far, he or she must understand that, even if the thought has been buried so deep that it can't be reached. I'm not anti-semitic Nor do I hate Muslims. They are human just like the rest of us.
The vicious past must be reconciled and the animosities must be left to the passage of time.
Take me as an example: I'm American, but my ethnic history is Irish Catholic. I know all about Oliver Cromwell, entire generations left to starve to death in ditches near the family land taken by the invaders from the east, my ancestors were lucky enough to have £10 to buy passage to the New World in a coffin ship and live to disembark in Boston. I don't blame any English person alive for any of that. They are innocent descendants.
3 generations later I don't have the anger and hatred and I never did.
There is a solution. Talk. Listen. The clip below is from Doctor Who.