For Israelis And Palestinians To Find Mutual Peace Honesty And Justice Must Prevail

Tom H. Hastings\PeaceVoice  Photos: Facebook\YouTube Screenshots “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”–attributed to Albert Einstein If you care about the people of Gaza you will not support Hamas.  If you care about the people of Israel you will not support Netanyahu.  All the old games just get more people killed, wreck more infrastructure, smash hope, and poison the environment.  The actual solutions will come from a populace ready, finally, to think and act way outside the box.  Every single one of the in-the-box ideas has proven a failure, not once, not twice, but consistently, time after time.  And yet we have some college students actually defending and justifying Hamas.  Others are defending and justifying Netanyahu.  In my field, Conflict Transformation, we just say no. We defend, justify, and promote supporting the Third Side, the side of positive peace. We support a trauma-informed process that rejects the positional, adversarial, obdurate case for one or the other, for Hamas or for Netanyahu.  In my field, Conflict Transformation, we suggest the most adaptive course will be created by the people on the ground, but will definitely not be engineered by the conflict industry.  In my field,...