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Longing For Peace and Justice

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24.09.2025

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How do I name this terror that persists within, pulling at my heart, only soothed by sobbing, mourning of all the ongoing death of innocent children, women, men and elders — a relentless bombing coming from the heartless and those who have lost their humanity and their ability to love and care for life as intended by the Creator?

My heart is broken and I am terrified of the inhumanity that is rearing its ugly face. I am horrified by the multitude of people who have been programmed like robots, as they attempt to justify the unspeakable, the unimaginable, the horrific, the unconscionable. Most terrifying is witnessing so many traumatized people who are unwilling to make any effort to heal their pain. Instead they inflict their hurt and trauma onto others.

As a Jewish woman raised to stand up for justice and the oppressed, and who has lost relatives in the Jewish holocaust, the anguish of what humankind is capable of is in my DNA, in my memories, in my heart and in my soul. This memory and heartache has been a constant catalyst in my life — it inspires my activism to not only never allow another Jewish holocaust to happen, but to never allow any genocide happen again to anyone. I have always felt a closeness to my Palestinian and Arab brothers and sisters. I witnessed from afar, and then in person last year, what Palestians are enduring under Israeli occupation and the zionist colonial settler mentality. How can human beings so quickly forget the horrors that were forced upon them and inflict those same atrocities onto another oppressed people? Witnessing the human suffering is unbearable, and even more disturbing, is the fact that these same people had relatives, or they themselves, survived the ravages of genocide. They now are the perpetrators of genocide all in the falsehood of protecting and saving the Jewish people.

There is nothing Jewish, or human, about this response. For thousands of years, Jews have........

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