Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

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116. K&R

The importance of Chris Hedges is this: He points out Evil in this world. I capitalize the word, not because it is worthy of the upper case letter, but because it is the number one issue this world can't seem to recognize or deal with and the word needs to be emphasized. If we want to eradicate a wrong/an Evil, we have to be able to recognize what is causing it. We must be able to name Evil when it makes its appearance in our vicinity, in our world.

I think we can all agree that violence is a tool of Evil, irregardless of who uses it. Non-violence is the only way to high ground in this tragedy that unfolds between Israel and Palestinians every few years. And it doesn't take a mental giant to know that Israel with it's current right-wing government and gigantic arsenal, or any one gov't in the future, is NOT going to take the high ground and lay down its arms. I think the onus lies on the Palestinians, simply because they are isolated and really have no way to defend themselves. If they would simply turn away from violence, the world would come to their aid. The world would pressure Israel to end the siege of the Palestinians.

Palestinians need to NOT let Israel pull it down in the gutter with them. They must STOP "becoming" their enemy. Yes, that seems like it would be impossible to do. If a bully walks up and dukes you for absolutely no reason, your natural instinct is to duke them twice and twice as hard, so they will think twice about doing it again.

Violence begets violence. Someone has to declare peace, once and for all.