Hardly anyone can feel the absence of peace, and thus the urgent need for it, than the peoples - the natives, citizens and residents - of Israel and Palestine. We their friends and well-wishers can both empathize and sympathize but we can only help them to make peace. We cannot make the tough decisions for them!
The world is changing and the leaders of both peoples must rise to the challenge this intractable project poses. Where will we be in 20 years if we do not make peace today? What will our dear children and their children say of us if we hand them this ticking time-bomb? Pray, who be the ultimate loser of this endless strife? Where else will Israel and Palestine be if not TOGETHER, as two peaceful and cooperating neighbours living side by side, meant to live together in PEACE?
The cost of leadership is pain, excruciating pain. Both Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbass painfully and personally know this - and thank God they do! We must then assure them that we also know THEY can make the toughest decisions because we know their "strength". We are grateful that the two cabinets have enough links and reach to back them. The peoples are yearning. The world is pledging. What an opening!
If I were these men, I will seize the moment. With the current realities of our globalizing world, they will find unfathomable goodwill in every country for the task. Would there be opposition? Of course. But we must listen to all sides and FIRMLY side with peace. Then, we must proceed to lovingly bring dissenters on board.
Dear Leaders, time is short! May God guide and guard you, help and honour you.
We wait.
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