When you make a decision for either side maybe you should take into account the bad as well as the good. In the Times today there is a very good article about Israeli’s who are refusing to obey orders. Once I’d finished it I realised maybe for the first time just how difficult it is for ordinary people on both sides to deal with the current situation. Does anyone remember who hit who first and does it really matter anymore? It’s been going on for so long now… Let me share with you a true story.

This week I visited my Pastor and inevitably our chat got around to the Middle East. It turns out we have very different views about which side we support. Then our British black sense of humour took control. He suggested that he would strap explosives to himself and blow himself up in our living room while I went round his place and bulldozed it (hence an earlier comment).We laughed ourselves silly but as I was driving home I realised just how silly it all is. You hit me, I hit you and centuries later our descendants are still doing it because it’s always been that way. You can be educated, intelligent and spiritual even, but when it comes down to it all we truly know is how to kill each other in even more elaborate ways.

Pew Chat. In an innocent conversation with a visitor to our congregation I found out where (not exactly where mind) the world’s largest database of terrorists is….. “It’s not safe anywhere.”

Rosie