A Time for Israelis to Break Bread with their Palestinian Neighbors
After Yachatz:
This yearning for freedom is universal. Each of us is a slave -- a slave to our work, a slave to our prejudices, a slave to old grudges. And each of us can aspire to our own Israel, a time and place where we can be freed from the habits and patterns that bind and blind our lives.
Decades ago we thought that a handshake on the White House lawn held out the prospect that the old pattern of conflict would be replaced by a new era of reconciliation in the land of Israel. It was not to be.
We conatinue to search for a glimmer of hope for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. It will not be easy because each step in the journey toward peace will require a leap of faith by both communities. Each step will require a willingness --not to forget the past, but to move beyond it.
Freedom and peace will come only when the bonds of hatred and retaliation are torn away, one strap at a time. Now we are slaves to the past. Next year may we be free to live in peace.
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