'Hamas killed my parents on October 7 - I'd rather fight for ceasefire than over who's right'

Magen Inon's satellite turned upside down erstwhile some his parents were killed by Hamas successful the horrific October 7 attack. Now, he's focused connected changing world and calling for an imminent ceasefire

A twelvemonth has passed, and the warfare continues. When our parents were murdered by Hamas terrorists a twelvemonth ago, we couldn't person imagined that the warring would spell connected for an full year.

Sadly, there's nary extremity successful sight. The personal tragedy we experienced has evolved into a bid of worsening quality for some Israelis and Palestinians. When Hamas attacked my location colony and different villages successful the surrounding area, they knew they would not beryllium capable to clasp the territory for long.

Their horrendous onslaught was a cruel effort to nonstop a message: they were trying to thatch the Israeli colonisation that Israelis should not expect thing from Gaza isolated from much and much violence, and truthful Jews surviving successful Israel should leave. That is the semipermanent strategy of Hamas.

Israel's actions successful Gaza, connected orders from the far-right Israeli government, are besides nary longer aimed astatine ensuring the information and information of Israelis. Instead, they are attempting to thatch the residents of Gaza that they should not expect thing from the Israeli authorities isolated from much violence, and truthful they should permission or, astatine the precise least, ne'er effort to onslaught Israel again. This is the semipermanent strategy of the existent far-right Israeli leadership.

In galore ways, this has been the quality of the struggle for decades. Each broadside is trying to usage unit to thatch the different that they should springiness up. The effect is that each iteration is much violent, and the acquisition has not been learned by anyone. Those of america who advocator for bid are often called naive, but reasoning that if you conscionable deed idiosyncratic harder they volition yet larn the acquisition is axenic insanity. It is clip we look reality: determination are astir 7 cardinal Jewish Israelis and astir 7 cardinal Palestinians betwixt the stream and the sea, and nary 1 is going away.

Menachem Begin, who was some the archetypal right-wing Prime Minister of Israel and the archetypal to motion a bid treaty, said: "War is avoidable, but bid is inevitable." At immoderate constituent successful the future, conscionable similar the French and the Germans, the English and the Scots, determination volition beryllium an extremity to the unit betwixt Israelis and Palestinians. The question is, however agelong volition it instrumentality america to get there? Will we get there? Will our children? Our grandchildren?

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The symptom and trauma of some sides are precise real, and we indispensable recognise that. It is hard for galore to ideate a shared future. As an Israeli, it is particularly hard erstwhile hostages are inactive being held successful unspeakable conditions successful Gaza. But implicit the past year, I've realised that a shared aboriginal based connected respecting quality values specified arsenic security, freedom, equality, and dignity is already the present-day acquisition for many; it is not a far-off future. This indispensable beryllium our semipermanent strategy.

I support asking myself: however tin we halt the war? Much of the treatment successful the media does not absorption connected that question. It appears that galore are much acrophobic with the question of who is close and who is wrong, whose actions are justified and whose are not. Yes, these questions are important, but being close volition not bring backmost those who person been killed. We indispensable halt trying to triumph the statement and absorption connected changing reality.

In galore conflicts, determination comes a constituent erstwhile the crushed for the struggle is the struggle itself—a rhythm of harming the other, being harmed, revenge, and payback. We deceive ourselves into believing that the adjacent subject occurrence volition beryllium the 1 that ends the conflict. It won't. We request an contiguous ceasefire followed by a process of rehabilitation and diplomacy.

The planetary assemblage indispensable unit Israeli and Palestinian leaders with each the powerfulness it has to execute that. You cognize what to do—do it. Stop the war.

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