SO - thinking ... thinking... thinking ... and reading a little here and there.... I am not comprehensively informed but I have feelings, thoughts, and objective as well as subjective ways of analyzing things. Probably NOT unique to me but seemingly so since sometimes it is hard to talk about certain things or find people with whom one can talk!
SO - today -- it occurred to me that Facts On The Ground are very very real and important. First such fact occurred to me years and years ago ... about Israel and that was we Jews were there and inhabiting The Land and We were The Facts on the ground. That continues to be very true. There are additional layers to that - our indigenous-ness, Biblical promises, involuntary exile by Romans and others, a haven in a world of anti-semetic hate... and more. SO - Israel is the home of Jews!
Another group has some Facts On The Ground, too. That group is generally called The Palestinians and while a way of thinking says there never was a people called Palestinians... the FACT is -- there is such a group now. Their history may be shorter and maybe they have a long history that is denied to them but they ARE!
SO - what is to be done? What will happen? What is the future? A thought I have had for a long long time is that the great history of us Jews and our longing for our land through the milleniums... is now something beginning, developing .. for The Palestinians. IF they continue into the future as a group .. and there is reason to believe they will/can .. (why not?) - then how long before their yearnings need/will be realized? With the help of The One True G-d -- which we Jews share with Christians and Muslims and others.
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What is my worth? What do I mean to people? What do I want? What do I do?? In other words: WHO AM I??
I continue to ask that question and continue to wonder and not be decisive. OY!!!!
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