Spiritual Musings

 

Day 4: 10-October

Spiritual Musings


 It is human nature that people respond to their environment in different ways. Some people will react violently, ask for revenge, and propagate hate rhetoric. Violence perseveres and comes in tides, only to be followed by an evolutionary message of peace. Duality - even plurality- is the nature of humanity. We understand peace more only after war.

Day 5: 11-October

Same news: After five days, I can’t believe there are still skirmishes in Israeli towns around Gaza between Hamas resistance fighters and the Israeli Army. Gaza, of course, is still being bombed nonstop. Whole families are wiped out off the face of the earth. Mosques were bombed, Al-Remal prestigious neighborhood was utterly destroyed, infrastructure was hit, and universities, libraries, apartment blocks, and ambulances were targeted. There are no shelters in Gaza. There is no safe area in Gaza.

 The rockets are still fired from Gaza. The death toll rises in Israel. An Israeli Unity Government is formed. Military skirmishes and shelling still occur in Northern Israel from Southern Lebanon and Syria. Israeli towns and cities in North Israel and towns in Southern Lebanon are targeted, but the scale of what is happening on this front is less severe and still constrained. 

Ordinary life is interrupted in the West Bank and Israel. Schools are now back online. Checkpoints are closed. Businesses are lagging as a result. Traveling in and out of the country is so difficult. Movement on the roads is kept to a minimum. Demonstrations around the West Bank flared to support Gaza, and young men died in these demonstrations.  

The news of bloodshed being so close injects helplessness, sadness, and depression. “There is a feeling of heaviness in our hearts,” most people expressed their mood.

Spiritual Musings: I have long committed myself to nonviolence. When I hear the sound of sirens and bombs, I doubt myself. They are louder and seem more powerful and efficient but offer no way out of hatred and bloodshed. 

 

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