Today I was talking with a bishop and we were discussing the wall that Israel is building around/through/in Palesine. I was sharing how strongly it reminds me of the Berlin Wall, and of the ghettos that the Nazis created for the Jews. This bishop shared two things that he had heard from two different rabbis: One said that Judaism did not need the State of Israel in order to thrive. The other said that Judaism absolutely needed the State of Israel to survive... Two rabbis, two diametrically opposed points of view. The bishop also shared how most people who go to Israel/Palestine on social justice trips come back strongly pro-Palestinian... And pro-Palestinian does NOT mean anti-Semite... although that is how it is often portrayed...
Wherever walls go up, whether they are physical, emotional, spiritual, racial, etc... we are cutting ourselves off from another aspect of ourselves... hurting ourselves.... But we continue to do it... When will we learn that walls solve nothing... and compound everything...
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