Hatred Just Grows and Grows

[rug]

by Uri Avnery, July 11, 2016
Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, writer, and former member of the Israeli Knesset.

A Palestinian youngster breaks into a settlement, enters the nearest house, stabs a 13-year old girl in her sleep and is killed.

Three Israeli men kidnap a 12-year old Palestinian boy at random, take him to an open field and burn him alive.

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In the beginning, God played a very minor role. Almost all first-generation Zionists, including both Herzl and Jabotinsky, were staunch atheists. It was said that Zionists were people who did not believe in God, but who believed that God had promised us the country.

This has radically changed – on both sides.

http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2016/07/10/hatred-just-grows-grows/

[RoverSuswade]

1. Sounds a little like the USA.

(A white cop murders a black man in Louisiana so a black man kills white officers in Texas - and on and on). Makes no sense.

[rug]

2. And the weapons used on both sides are morphing.

[heaven05]

3. per title OP

all over the world.

[Boldine]

4. An eye for an eye

until the whole world is blind.

It must stop.

[Ligyron]

5. It was no doubt hard for the refugees who founded Israel to reconcile a God with the Holocaust.

[rug]

6. The author's family left Germany for British Palestine in 1933, when he was 10.

He was given a unique perspective on what was to follow.