Inspired by another visit to Dubai. Another Saturday morning at synagogue in Abu Dhabi and early evening at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque – this time with an Israeli, Jewish child. Impressions. Observations. And a young American adult with multiple identities.

Discussion begins. Rationalizing. Justifying. Empathizing. Perspectives. Angles.

Framing. Wartime trauma. Like a temper tantrum. Reflexes or counter reflexes. Perceived threats. Fear. Helpless fear. Thrashing. Kicking. Or curling into a decompressed form of wishful thinking – to be invisible, untouchable, impenetrable.

Agreeing the only absolute is relative. Setting a starting point, yet it remains relative to other times. Imperialism and colonialism. Redressing injustices in one historic time frame, under a time-appropriate set of sociopolitical considerations. The considerations that generated the reality with which we arguably look at the injustice in its historical context. With the filters of our times. Regardless, we are........

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