Stop treating Israel as a black and white question – the front

It's shocking, frustrating and sterile how people determine that everything is black or white, good or bad, right or wrong.

Almost everyone, it seems, has a side, a cause, an oppressor and a victim. And if you do not agree – completely – not only are you wrong, but you are also one of the "them".

Few things show the error of this thought more than the rhetoric around Israel.

A few weeks ago, Jewish children left Birthright, encouraged by left-wing organizations. And everyone takes sides

They have the right to be rascals, to steal a free trip, then to ask for funds to go home –

or they are brave warriors and we should fund their travels

the media, in distant, distant continents, try to justify the sending of balloons with explosives in parks and school courses.

Their land is not only Gaza, the Palestinians continue to demolish their villages and their homes the land settlements are steadily growing and growing on Palestinian land, you continue to slaughter them on a regular basis fairly – 33?13 (@heshamalnaami) July 17, 2018

Yet as rockets rained down on terrified citizens:

VIDEO: Pure terror in this Israeli street as a terrorist rocket of #Gaza lands on the synagogue. #IsraelUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/eIOepqJo4r – Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) July 14, 2018

A shot of Gaza lands very close to the Israeli man in the south of Israel ] pic.twitter.com/SOHGOxU76S – Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (@skjask) July 14, 2018

As the police must make videos to tell children to not not touch the balloons loaded with explosives that land their parks:

Israeli police published this video to warn children not to warn explosive kites from Gaza. It's like a Stephen King movie. pic.twitter.com/YSZuAfeXj1 – Eylon A. Levy (@EylonALevy) July 16, 2018

As the birds are attached with incendiary devices and acres on hectares of crops, fields and forests are burned on the ground:

WT real F! # $%!
Palestinians sent a bird (Kestrel) with an incendiary device hitched to a harness that Kestrel gave to Israel to burn the countryside?
The Israeli Authority of Nature and Parks says that a bird (and sons) were found after a fire broke out in Habesor National Park. Jeremy Sharon (1945-1999) July 17, 2018

In unprecedented acts of terror, Hamas launched incendiary kites and incendiary balloons, which burned more than 7,400 acres of land Israeli

Read more here: https://t.co/2VhQTEchDc pic.twitter.com/cq67kHNutV – IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 12, 2018

"All the glass in the living room was flying towards us, the whole house was filled with smoke, there was blood everywhere, screams and madness.The neighbors called the emergency services, I had bursts of Shells in the face and legs, my wife and daughter had in the head. "Https://t.co/hReWiwmVOS pic.twitter.com/3Ms6fRtLMe – Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (@skjask ) July 15, 2018

While two teenagers tragically die in Gaza in an attack on Hamas's infrastructure:

This is not the case. is not a horror movie.
It happened in #Gaza days ago #GazaBleeds #SaveGaza # ICC4israel #IsraeliCrimes pic.twitter.com/jQTbKzOzac – Bahaa.Shammala ?? Gaza @ (@palbahaa July 17, 2018

And as people tear apart the words of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic New York candidate for Congress: [19659011] Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks Israel, calls them the occupiers of Palestine.

When she insisted on what she meant, she struggled to give an answer and then admitted that she did not know what she was talking about. pic.twitter.com/e3Uq1eupD3 – Ryan Saavedra ?? (@RealSaavedra) July 16, 2018

Do you know what is

Jewish teens – mine included – are digging Byzantine ruins side by side with Arabs and Behe douins.

Orthodox Jews, Muslim Family, Christian Sisters, Walking #JerusalemIstheCapital of Israel . I am looking for such an image in another country in the Middle East. – Yanki farber (@Farberyanki) July 17, 2018

Arabs and Jews save lives together in an organization run by religious Jews

Druze and Ethiopians all serve together in the US army and the police.

In the army of the State of Apartheid. The second on the left is Yahya Mahamid, a Muslim Arab soldier who has just completed his basic training with an IDF combat unit. I am proud to count him as a friend. pic.twitter.com/Tx376CNzIq – Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ (@COLRICHARDKEMP) July 17, 2018

Israeli children collect supplies for Syrian children.

IDF delivers clothes and toys donated by the Israeli Golan residents to Syrian children https://t.co/mdPHfkB7un pic.twitter.com/UTNQBlaHf0 – The Israel Times ( @TimesofIsrael) 11 July 2018

Palestinians donate to build a synagogue in the honor of a Jewish victim of terror.

Palestinians donate to build a synagogue in memory of Israeli Reuven Schmerling, after being stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists. "What they did to him was horrible – if more people were like Reuven, peace would have been achieved long ago," said one of them. https://t.co/GdH7OW5of8- (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) July 18, 2018

Please understand.

Nothing is black and white. simple as the warriors of social justice want you to believe.

But they try. Because thinking is hard. Nuance is difficult and that means you may need to consider, analyze and see that everyone has a story – and that everyone's story needs to be heard.

Yes, the Jews. And yes, Arabs.

Come on, learn, ask! But listen too. And if someone tells you that the story is simple – that there is a black and white way to see it – go ahead. You will learn nothing there but hate it, and you will only help the enemies.

There are people here who really make the difference. There are people living here who love here who want you to know that life here is not all war and pain.

There are people who think that both peoples deserve rights and dignity. goal.

If you are interested, let me know. It would be my honor to add you to this list.