I am frustrated, angry and getting myself worked up into a state of depression.  I do not understand how humans can become evil barbaric animals.  Why is it necessary to become satanic and demand that if you do not fit a certain mold you are not worthy to live?  Why is there so much hate against Israel!  Even though it was named as a Jewish state in 1948, the Jewish population had not denied non- Jews to live within the borders.  The Jews/Israeli’s did not start the fighting, and in fact if you ask many Jews living or visiting in Israel that the population is welcoming to all.  It is the extremist that cause the wars and killing, destruction and my question is WHY.  As children we learn to share and be polite and yet somewhere along the way the EXTREMISTS world wide start pulling innocent individuals into their circle or they kill them!  In every religion isn’t killing for the sake of killing a sin of some format!

I have never had the honor of making Aliyah to Israel.  The one time I had hoped and planned to go to Israel was in my senior year of high school, 1968, not the safest time, and yet when is the safe time to go, with those who hate just because of someone’s religion, traditions, and heritage.

In a conversation I had with my son the other day we were talking about our various friends we have and not once did we identify them as Black, Negro, African American, Asian, German, Christian, Moslem, Jewish, or LGBTQ+.  Through work, in our neighborhoods, in the groups we have joined for social justice we know a variety of people and we do not select our friends based on their looks or their differences.  I just learned one of my best friends is on the opposite of the political spectrum than I am and yet we are friends and we share so many other things in common and she is nice, why would I throw a friendship away.  I will listen her side and she will listen to my side if we choose to share or we will leave those topics for our own personal use.

I do not tell my friends, business colleagues, or family members what to believe or not to believe.  I do not want them to tell me either, however; I believe we all should be in relationships where we can voice our opinions without judgement from self or others.  Changing from hate to love is not going to happen over night but we each can take one step to stop the hate and peace will be the winner.  Are you willing to stop your hate?