Hope?

I was almost in tears by this, definitely inspired. Regardless of governmental conflicts and disagreements, Palestinian and Israeli doctors are working together to perform life-saving heart surgeries for children free of charge.



It's all too easy to let a flicker of hope be quenched, however. After watching the video I scrolled down to user comments, as I normally do (you can get quite a laugh out of some of those posts!) There I found Palestinian and Israeli citizens flinging arguments at each other. Thankfully they were not in the same physical room, else they'd be flinging more than words. There was no room in their minds, crowded with anger and hurt, for reason or rational thought. The conflict is so long-standing, so ingrained, that it's MUCH easier to envision continued war and destruction than peace. Of course, the hard road is the best one to take. Hopefully the thousands of babies saved by this medical collaboration will remember the peaceful hands of cooperation that saved them when other hands in their countries wanted to kill.