The last week was depressing in regards to the nations of Israel/Palestine. On both sides extremism raised its ugly head. First the idiot, pro-settler extremist Israelis plan to blow up the Dome of the Rock. Thank god they were stopped. Then I read that in his May 13th sermon, Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris, the PA’s religious leader claimed that, “Jews are bad from the core as mentioned by Muhammad in the Koran, Jews were always a source for conflict in history, the persecution of Jews is presented as the natural answer to the Jewish problem, Zionism was created by Great Britain to solve its Jewish problem by sending them to Israel, god decided that the Jewish problem would be solved by them being exterminated and that Islam will govern the Christians, Israel has no right to exist and must b e destroyed.”
And, of course, there is the Christian extremism of my own government. What’s a moderate of any religion to do? I know extremely reasonable people of all religions, so I don’t equate all Israelis with the settlers or all Jews with the extremists, I don’t equate all Muslims with terrorists and I don’t equate all Christians with intolerance. But sometimes it is hard not to view all religion with some disgust.

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