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“Abir’s murder could have led me down the easy path of hatred and vengeance,” he wrote in an autobiographical essay, “but for me there was no return from dialogue and non-violence. After all, it was one Israeli soldier who shot my daughter, but one hundred former Israeli soldiers who built a garden in her name at the school where she was murdered.”
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if you want to kill yourself, keep hating your enemy. If you want to save yourself, then learn about your enemy. I began to lose hate and fear of the other side. But it took me seven years to make peace with myself and to understand that behind every Israeli is a human being.”
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given that we were at Columbia, the subject of campus protests came up. Neither man seemed much impressed. “Instead of exporting solutions, you have imported the conflict,” Zeigen told us. That made a few of us blink.
✏️ Powerful quote. Protests in and of themselves are nothing if you’re just rehashing the same conflict over. It’s not about one side or the other. It’s about peace and humanity. Flags, borders.. these just create division. 👓 quote 🔗 View Highlight
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“If you want to promote peace in Israel, give up the flags,” he continued, adding that he has nothing against the flags and their symbolism, but that in protests, they only serve to emphasize divisions. “Put the flags down and hold up peace signs instead.” Aramin agreed. “The land doesn’t belong to Palestinians and it doesn’t belong to Jews,” he said. “God gave it to us all.”