From a path of recklessness and ruination to a path of righteousness and redemption
FORGIVENESS MUST CONSTANTLY CIRCULATE FOR A PEACEFUL SOCIETY TO FUNCTION.
Hind Rajab died in 2024. In 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu & Mousa Abu Marzook believed forgiveness was possible. 15 years without forgiveness
About Forgiveness is An Option.
Seventeen years ago Benjamin Netanyahu and Mousa Abu Marzook believed forgiveness was possible, as quoted in 2009 New York Times opinion written by Scott Atran.
From 2009 New York Times opinion (written by Scott Atran), How words could end a war, "But when we mentioned a potential Israeli apology for 1948, he [Mousa Abu Marzook (the deputy chairman of Hamas)] brightened: 'Yes, an apology is important, as a beginning. It’s not enough because our houses and land were taken away from us and something has to be done about that.' His response suggested that progress on sacred values might open the way for negotiations on material issues, rather than the reverse.
We got a similar reaction from Benjamin Netanyahu, the hard-line former Israeli prime minister. We asked him whether he would seriously consider accepting a two-state solution following the 1967 borders if all major Palestinian factions, including Hamas, were to recognize the right of the Jewish people to an independent state in the region. He answered, 'O.K., but the Palestinians would have to show that they sincerely mean it, change their textbooks and anti-Semitic characterizations'.
Making these sorts of wholly intangible 'symbolic' concessions, like an apology or recognition of a right to exist, simply doesn’t compute on any utilitarian calculus. And yet the science says they may be the best way to start cutting the knot."
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25atran.html
The United Nations recommended "Bury the Hatchet". Two Israeli researchers are studying unconditional forgiveness.
1. 'Bury the Hatchet’, Assembly President Appeals to Warring Parties,
“Peace and security will never be achieved through force or occupation,” Assembly President Philemon Yang (Cameroon) stressed, as he emphasized that the continued denial of Palestinian statehood “has only perpetuated cycles of violence and deepened despair”. It has been over a year of hostilities that have caused thousands of deaths and widespread destruction. Now is the time for all to “bury the hatchet for once and for all”, he stressed, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages."
2. <roneln@biu.ac.il> Ronel Natti and <izik.be@zefat.ac.il> Yitzhak Ben Yair are leading a project since October, 2024.
"This two-year project will be funded by a recently awarded $220,000 grant from the U.S.-based Templeton World Charity Foundation. Looking to educate rabbis and other Jewish spiritual leaders in Israel, the researchers will explore how Judaism — which requires the offending party to confess his transgressions and express regret for his actions before being forgiven by the offended party — can also embrace the concept of unconditional forgiveness for the benefit of one’s own psychological well-being."
3. Palestine UN rep was asked about forgiveness: (Palestine's permanent observer to UN believes forgiveness is possible - The World from PRX) . Go to the last 90 seconds.
4. Quote by Dr. Cornel West about the Black Church, “The love, the courage, the vision in the face of all of that terror, but not terrorizing back, but calling for liberty and freedom for EH-VER-EE-BODY,” he continued. “Oh, what a people! More than spiritual greatness, hard to find in the modern world. I don’t know of too many people who have been lynched every two and a half days for 50 years and enslaved for 244 years where the average slave died at 27 years old and still produced ‘A Love Supreme’ by (legendary jazz saxophonist) John Coltrane.
… What is it about these people that they choose not to form a Black version of the Ku Klux Klan?”
5. Is Peace Possible? The Moving Parts of a Current Conflict