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From the Other Side…
The plight of the Palestinian people & those who have pitted themselves against them, stirs many deep emotions. Whatever your views, we all like to think we have ‘right’ on our side, but how we view the suffering of Gazans and feel about those who inflict this suffering is all a matter of personal perspective. The major stumbling block to building peace in such a tortured region is a total lack of empathy on all sides, & an unwillingness to try to understand the other’s fears and hopes.
23 min readJun 13, 2025
‘The two boys must have been about 12, their faces betraying the onset of puberty. Along the Via Dolorosa, a shopping alley in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City Muslim Quarter, the teenagers encountered a woman wearing a headscarf — a young adult. They stopped and spat directly in her face. The woman bravely continued, moving against the relentless stream of teenagers. More insults followed. More spit. Hateful stares. Eventually, she chose to disappear down a side street.’
Luc Bronner, Le Monde, May 27, 2025.
