WHEN A PICTURE PAINTS A POIGNANT STORY OF THE TRAGIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS AND THE PALESTINIANS! THE END.

Yet, what would happen if we were to imagine this young man lying seriously wounded on a bleak street in Germany, during the Second World War, having been shot by an SS Officer, after having carried out an attack on Hitler's apparatus? 

Which of them, would the more compassionate amongst us support; the the young man who has just been shot, or the German soldier who shot him?

It does not really take much for the oppressed to become the oppressor, given the right conditions. We have seen this in many societies which have gained their independence from their colonial masters. 

Getting from the one to the other is not a long road to travel, and the rationale tends to be the same; namely that of 'protecting the State.' 

This is why it is so important for us humans to hold our humility dearly, and not allow the business of oppressing, for whatever reasons, other humans, to become something we take for granted. So much that we value our lives greatly, while devaluing the lives of of the oppressed in equal measure.

This image of this young soldier and his proud mother is not an image which the State of Israel should ever want to come to epitomises  the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. That the happiness and security of the former should be bought and maintained at the cost of the unhappiness and despair of the latter.

Peace will probably only be achieved when the oppressor is able to see with the eyes of the oppressed, and empathise with force and strength of their moral case.  And when the oppressed ceases to have their vision clouded by the strength of their moral case, and begins to be guided by reason and pragmatism. 

Not allowing 'the struggle, or cause' to, effectively, becomes the goal or and end in itself. And, ipso facto, an unachievable goal.