1 post tagged “war”
i just spent my lunch break writing quite a long post about how the war in israel/palestine should stop and it was deleted. sigh.
anyway. here are two pictures from my trip to tel aviv a year and a half ago that show that many of the youth in israel do not support their army though they are forced to join it for several years of their youth and fight a useless neverending war that will never be won.
basically, what i want to say is this: my grandparents were in concentration camps and my great grandparents were brutally tortured and murdered because of their religion. that should teach me, of all people, the value of fairness, the value of peace and pacifism and the value in ending worldly conflict that has roots in no real solutions, only more pain and suffering not only for the people any of us are at war with, but for ourselves and our families. that should teach me to rise above hatred and stupidity and blindness to find what's real: that we are all connected, we are all the same, we're all beautiful and stupid and selfish and human.
i don't believe in romanticized homelands. i don't believe in nationalism. politicians are liars. what are you trying to control? i don't believe in fake wars that have nothing to do with things they purport to be about. we are all from africa. before that, stardust.
what a waste of stardust.
