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Israel and Hamas (Gaza’s Military Leadership) and an Example of the Blindness of Polarity Consciousness
Civilians are often innocent
My thoughts and prayers go out to all the innocents in both Israel and Gaza and any others who may get injured or kidnapped or die from a cause at the hands of others or who will live in fear or trauma from these or related events.
I write this story as an attempt at a lesson about or at least to call your attention to binary thinking and polarity consciousness and the failures of assumptions therefrom. My friend Henya Drescher has posted two pieces from Tel Aviv since the unprecedented and horrific attacks by Hamas began yesterday.
In each, I expressed my hopes for her and her family’s safety and that all the innocents on both sides were in my…