No Victors - a lament of today

So this is what is has come too. Half a century later, past lessons hidden for decades unearth themselves, and speak out to the mortals below. There shall be no victors and no vanquished.

Religions cannot compete, nations cannot feel superior. Yet it seems that time wipes away old wounds only to create new ones: one need not look futher than home to understand this.

The settlements will soon be completely abandoned. Is this the right path? Tomorrow's History will decide. But this is already fertilizing hate. Palestine is celebrating. Israel is not. It was not so long ago when things were different ... yet the past will revisit. Only today a jewish reporter attempted to subdue the history of the settlements by claiming that although Israel itself has removed Palestinian homes, Israelis (and jews) never celebrated that. His point: The palestinians are being evil by rejoicing.

He is not alone.

In Lebanon, the fetus of Lebanon's government in the aftermath of the syrian control (and end of) has stopped developping. The essence of dialogue has lost itself in the do's and don't of sects. The people do not matter. The individuals are forgotten.

1917, 1943, 1948, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1990 2000, 2005 ... these are times that are spoken about but that we fail to understand.

We have not understood that we are not better than they, that they don't think about eradicating us, that you are not my enemy.

There should be no they and us.

There are no victors, and no vanquished.

Only losers.

posted by Lazarus, 7:49 PM