“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human being than its opposite.”
— Nelson Mandela
Chapter 14: Peace
Read. Expand your options. Expose yourself to other viewpoints. Don’t agree with everything you hear on American radio or television, or read in the press.
You’ve read this book to this point. Investigate. Take what you’ve read in here and delve deeper.
Find and watch the videos and stories that have been censored. Among them, The Lobby, the multi-part documentary which shows the insidious power of the Israel Lobby in its many forms. It’s available on the Electronic Intifada website. The One Day in Gaza program that was pulled from PBS television shortly before it was supposed to air; find it on the Council for the National Interest website. Watch the movie Defamation about the motives and workings of the Anti-Defamation League from 2009.
Read the book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal. It’s full of deep, dark, ugly secrets that are not so secret to the rest of the world.
Continue the boycott of Israeli products worldwide; all products, not just those produced in the occupied territories, but throughout the country. If Israeli voters continue to elect nationalistic oppressors who support Jewish religious fanaticism in the occupied territories, then that general citizenry is complicit (supportive of wrongdoing) in the crimes. Until irrational, illegal, and inhumane policies committed against Palestinians are halted, all of Israel should be held accountable.
