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Stuart Chambers, PhD's avatar

"Passion and commitment can overwhelm and blind. When that happens, reason ceases to enlighten and keep us well away from madness and obscenity. Reason becomes rationalization. It twists and bends and distorts. It excuses the inexcusable." What I like about this section is that it applies equally to the Israeli government as it does to Hamas. If anyone thinks this is just about Hamas apologists, you are missing the point of the article.

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Morrey Ewing's avatar

Having absorbed thousands of words from your digital pen over the last couple of years - with great satisfaction - I can say without reservation that this posting is your finest work to date. And your most important.

Thank you.

I am reminded of Michael Ignatieff’s insights about the former Yugoslavia where he pondered how peoples who had lived together in relative harmony for all their lives, often inter-marrying, could be incited to hate and massacre each other. I can’t cite the passage but he made his view plain that all of us contain the potential for good and evil, not just those on today’s firing lines.

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