I have courage because fearing God, I fear nothing else.
-Joseph Chiwatenhwa, Wyandot Indian of 18th Century
We can try to deny it, but we can't escape it -- a battle is raging around us.
No matter how much we don't want to listen, we lie in bed and hear the shooting.
There is no way not to listen. But what is the message we are supposed to hear?
It's not clear anymore. We want peace, but peace is a word that is not the absence of war.
Peace has to have value in itself. We have been dreaming about peace. But we have been
dreaming with our eyes closed.
Now our eyes are open. We can't escape the sounds of battle.
And what is most alarming is this: The battle is a result of giving everything we could.
To give more, makes no sense. -Sheri Lederman Mandell on her situation in Israel
