Events in the Middle East

[Mike 03]

I've been trying to watch coverage of this war from both sides, and the images from both sides are beyond painful to watch.

I've seen Israeli children bleeding and in a hospital. I've watched parents grieve.

I've seen Palestinian agony, families in terror, and children dead and dying.

Both sides are suffering, and both sides obviously live in uncertainty, terror, fear, and experience indescribably painful emotions.

When they look at the pain and suffering of each other, do they feel something too?

When Palestinian parents look at images of the suffering of Israeli parents when their daughters or sons have been killed, maimed, or injured, do they understand that pain?

And when Israeli parents look at images of the suffering of Palestinian parents when their daughters and sons are killed, maimed and injured or dead, do they feel a pang of horror and death too?

Attack my naivete (I probably deserve it), but why doesn't this evaporate hatred on the spot? Who can suffer through this? These beautiful people are dying. Anw why?

There simply HAS to be some other way.

The emotion that might bring these two sides together is grief. When you lose someone you love, so many defenses drop. Where is the empathy and surrender that leads to empathy???

Do any of you think that there is a way out of this? All day long I hear people say these two peoples will destroy each other. But I am praying there is a better way.

On Edit:

I must apologize. Rarely do I ever post here, but it's impossible not to follow these events, and I love DU and DO care what people here think about this.

This situation just makes me so very sad.

[nancyr]

1. I feel much the same way.

War is not the solution.