Blurb:

Dan Cohn-Sherbok begins this chapter with a quotation from Uri


Avnery’s “In Praise of Emotion” in which he


argues that peace needs to include an emotional


component:


An Arab villager spoke quietly of his daughter, killed


by a soldier on her way to school. A Jewish mother


spoke of her soldier son, killed in one of the wars.


All in a subdued voice. Without pathos. Some spoke


Hebrew, some Arabic.


They spoke of their first reaction after their loss, the


feelings of, the thirst for revenge. And then the slow


change of heart. The understanding that the parents


on the other side, the Enemy, felt exactly like them,


that their loss, their mourning, their bereavement was


exactly as their own.