Humanity at a crossroads - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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Let's assume that circumstances are a bit unclear right now - precedence must be given to these humane instincts.
By Oudeh Basharat
It's amazing, and also sad, to see what the Israeli-Arab dispute has done to our faculties of judgment. What have you done to us, you wicked dispute? Any argument between a man and his wife is measured according to its place in the dispute. Jews use to ask, "Is it good for the Jews?" - even when they were talking about a soccer match. In sophisticated Arab circles, everything is evaluated according to its compatibility - or lack thereof - with the positions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama. Arabs used to recite, "Don't expect good things from the West," as a result of the bitterness they suffered under colonial rule. [ read more at link ]
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