Every so often you read about a feud between neighbors that has been going on for 50 years.
It started, perhaps, when one built a garage that encroached a foot or two on the neighbor’s property.
The neighbor responded with violent words and maybe by an act of physical violence.
The neighbor who put up the garage will admit no wrong, but insists that he is being wronged by the violence coming from next door.
So it has been going for more than 50 years.
In 1948, Israel realized its Zionist dream and was created on the land of its dreams.
The problem was, there were already people there, and those people were displaced.
They responded with violence.
So it has been going for 50 years.
Like others in the neighborhood, we have been watching this feud and have discovered no way to intervene to end it. Both parties are right and both parties are wrong.
It has gone on so long that it is no longer the original insult that is in contention–the feud feeds upon itself.
Both parties have invoked a supreme being to support their cause of course.
A nasty feud always ruins the neighborhood and makes life miserable for all others who live there.
