This is a subject about which I used to know quite a lot. The best reference work I ever saw, and I was looking, is a book called ARAB AND JEW. It was so good I bought extra copies. If there is anyone who wants to know what the hearts of the people caught in this feel like, in their own words and with a view toward the reader doing their own thinking, PM me and I will send you a copy. It will make you think, and should make you very uncomfortable, for the hurts under these conflicts are so deep that a human respoonse is to look deep at yourself for your own deep hurts before presuming to have an opinion.

The good news is--

THERE IS STILL NO SUBSTITUTE FOR REALLY KNOWING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. TRUTH AND LOVE ARE NEVER FAR APART. LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON TO HAND, AND IT IS AT HAND AT ALL TIMES. INCLUDING YOUR OWN HAND. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FIRST FOR YOUR OWN HAND.

Anything else I might say I have said in the threads on the term [folk nazis] and frankly I am not feeling quite well enough to say it all again, and I don't think most of you would listen because if you had, when I said it then, this would be a different discussion. Maybe it is a different discussion. Maybe my tolerance is low today. It happens. I'm your MudSis, not a mudsaint. We say, "I'm just a sinner saved by grace." Today I am not even that sure, more just a singer saved by grapes.

So I think this time I will just pray. I do know at least that much today.

And kat, thanks. Me too.

Oh, and davecoje, guests can't PM. (Unless they are members who just didn't post under their member name.) If you want to argue with guests, you have to attract them into joining first. There is an art to it. You have seen me in action with yourself. That's how it works. And I miss you. Write to me wouldja?

~Susan