Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries Palestinians [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I don't have an objection about the second...just curiosity.
As to the first...because collective retribution is always unjust. It's not as if all Palestinians were responsible for that attack, any more than all Israelis were responsible for what Baruch Goldstein did or for the insane settlers that keep stealing Palestinian olive trees and leaving innocent Palestinian farmers with no livelihood, driving those farmers will fall into poverty for no reason.
At some point, you're going to have to accept that the majority of Palestinians, like the majority of people in any other nation(other than the nations allied with Hitler in the 1930's)are not irredeemable monsters.
And none of the Palestinians alive today are responsible for whatever was done to your grandfather in 1948. That responsibility fell solely on those who did what was done to him...not on everybody who is part of the Palestinian people "unto their tenth generation".
There will never be peace if the hatred doesn't die. Why do you nurture your hatred, when it does you no good?