Who Are The Terrorists?
I was prompted to write this note by a recent article in Foreign Policy in which Alice Walker was interviewed. Alice is joining the upcoming Gaza Flotilla aimed at forcing the world to recognize and act to end the outrages perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza, with the full support of the US government.
Though there is not a great deal I can add to what she said -- read her article, I will observe that to not recognize the intense, mind-boggling inequality of power in this conflict, is to see it from a fatally flawed point of view.
The deep sadness that breaks upon those of us who view this from a little distance cannot but bring those who have any connection to the Christian or Jewish religions to marvel at the extent to which we have surrendered our likeness to God, the nobility implied in the story of redemption -- a story implicitly contained in the Jewish Scriptures and explicitly written into the Christian New Testament.
As Jesus said, "when the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?", suggesting his return at a very dark hour. And in this darkness, a darkness that calls itself light, there will be true light, light that cannot be extinguished, light that cannot be mistaken for darkness. And when that time comes, when that light comes, it will have been anticipated by simple actions, shining a light in darkness, like the courageous actions of Alice Walker.