And its roots are not just on one side of it,
but on both Hebrew and Arab.
On this page we have posted a number of essays on
this issue, looking at it from political and religious perspectives,
This one looks at it from an emotional perspective,
this obscure side of our minds, which dictates to us how to think and feel,
without questioning those thoughts and feelings:
First, the Hebrew people have to take the idea that
Arabs are all Ishmael’s descendants, hence less important and less ... human
than the descendants of Isaac: out of their minds,
This idea which is ingrained in their minds by
their clergy and by the interpreters of the Books and the writers of their
history can only be false,
Firstly, no one can know for sure that all “Arabs”
are Ishmael’s descendants, after thousands of years have passed after the birth
of Ishmael and Isaac,
Secondly, if the prophets did declare in those days
that Ishmael was not close to god, in whichever way they said it: this does not
mean that it was a sentence to apply to his descendants forever,
And the Gospel came later to say: the fathers eat
the lemon and the children feel the pain??
But some Jewish clergy and politicians use the
Ishmael argument to justify the cruelty and injustice that they have
perpetrated against the Palestinians over the last decades, cruelty and
injustice which are considered major sins in the true Judaic teaching.
Second, the Arabs have to stop thinking that the
Jewish people are evil and that all the evils of the world were caused by them,
including the splitting of their religion of Islam into many sects,
They have to stop thinking that the Jewish people
control their destinies and minds and economics and politics ... and that they
are the cause of their infighting,
Which, ironically makes them mightier than the god
they believe in, who seems to be helpless in warding off this evil from them,
despite their piety and their strict adherence to all the obligations of
prayer, fasting, Haj and zakat,
Both, Hebrew and Arabs, have carried fallacies in
their minds over many centuries, which have been exploited by the clergy and
the politicians, to flare up bigotry and nationalism,
Neither of them should be surprised why they can’t
find a way out of this ongoing conflict. If they stick to their fallacies they
never will ...
In fact, the false beliefs on either side can
survive only in the presence of tension and conflict: this is a vicious cycle
...
