Lessons from 'I Shall Not Hate' book

The lessons from this book for me are these:

Difficult for both sides NOT to hate the Other in the Holy Land.

So simply renounce violence, try non-violence (eg Tibet, S Africa, N Ireland) and, be the Good Samaritan to the One you hate so much.

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DON'T use violence at any stage as you try and get a more just, egalitarian, humane, and sustainable society. 

Protest with good humour and honesty.

If things start to get too hot with your suggestions to the authorities, pull back.

In the final analysis, if things are so bad, you just have to move to another country.  Don't turn to violence.

In the case of Gaza, no-one is allowed out by land, sea or air. You are a captive and can only hope to survive in the most desperate of conditions that no one should be living in, anywhere on earth.

It points to nations, out of sheer self-interest, needing to treat all their people with nonviolent justice and compassion, so that no one wants to leave or to resort to violence against the authorities.

It is essential that nations do not sell armaments to ANY country. You only manufacture what the people of violence must have to defend their own country, ONLY.

Alliances between nations are not helpful or successful.

It's the people of violence, I believe, who threaten all of us with violence and death.  They are the problem for us all.  They kill my family and me.

The Holocaust was perpetrated by people like us more than Hitler and the Nazis.

Gaza is perpetrated by ordinary, perfectly nice people like ourselves.

We are the problem with our love of violence and support for those who indulge in it.

TIBET: Violence and fighting initially but soon died down and the inevitable was accepted.  It did NOT lead to the invasion of the next country.

S AFRICA: Much less violence than was expected.  Truth and Reconciliation Commission was outstanding and earth-shattering in its expunging of revenge/punishment.

N IRELAND: Talking started under M Thatcher in the 80s, continued in the 90s to fruition with the 98 Good Friday Peace Agreement.