As people who read the news would know, this week there was a lynching in Israel.

Israeli Bus Shootings

Now, I am from the West (USA), so I know that lynchings are a way of things when someone does somthing so grievous that the people there take the law into their own hands. An Israeli teenager abandoned his post in the Army (in which all Israeli citizens are required to serve... male or female) and went on a bus and started shooting it up. He had abandoned his post over the whole Gaza strip pull-out mess. Oh yes, that whole thing is a mess.

Anyway, people mobbed the bus, pulled out the kid and beat him to death. So, which side has done wrong? Both. What the kid did is reprehensible, horrible, and quite frankly petty murder, but the crowd, they were just as wrong. They only pulled him from the bus and beat him after he ran out of bullets and was no longer a threat. That is not self defense. The thing I find amusing is that both sides are taking the same view on the matter. Their hatred for each other runs so deep that both sides are doing the same fucking thing. There was a time when we in the English speaking world refered to the Jewish Israeli's as "freedom fighters", in other words, terrorists who are on our side. These days, we can't even do that. They are terrorists. Terrorism is happening on both sides and there doesn't look to be an end in sight. The hatred has escalated to such a level that it is almost as if it is born into their hearts before birth.

I remember a while back my aunt told me her opinion on the matter. She said that those in Israel (on both sides) were forced into an eternal conflict. That they are born again and again to fight each other and that is why the hatred runs so deep. It is a conflict between souls who don't know how to move on, all they know is that they must kill each other. Their hatred is so old and so bitter that is transcends life and scars the soul.

In a way, this thought makes sense. Why else would people be fighting over something as trivial as a bit of land? Dry, barren, horrible land at that. Yes, there are holy places there. Well, news flash people... Judaism and Muslim all have roots in the Hebrew faith. The land is holy for both and that's okay. I think once people realize that its okay to share holy stuff (in essense that is what they're fighting over, stuff that happens to be 'holy'), then everything will be okay. Unfortunately, they are so blinded by their hatred that they can't see it. The anger is a mask with no eyes.

To mock what they are currently fighting over (the West Bank), an artist went and did some wall paintings upon the 'security' wall. (There was a 'security wall in another place as well... I'm sure some of you remember it. The Berlin Wall.) It is a satirical take on what they are fighting over.

Satirical Paintings

Don't let this turn into another 'cold war' Walls only divide and in the end don't help a Gods Damned thing. They set up a physical barrier where there is a mental/emotional one. Yes, these people hate each other, but a wall will not stop them from killing each other. Unfortunately, walls do stop people from talking to each other.

I am a jew... well, I was born as one and raised as one. I would one day like to go to Israel and see the Wailing Wall and the chunk of barren desert that is Holy to my family and my ancestors.

Posted by Utopia at August 5, 2005 07:53 AM

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