What is happening in the Middle East is extremely tragic for both sides. But to my opinion the Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims seem not to have any problem to sacrifice their people, and for all their children.

Former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir said it quite striking a few times:

On peace, she said in 1957, before the National Press Club in Washington:

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

In a similar vein, she would say:

Peace will come when an Arab leader is courageous enough to wish it.

At a 1969 press conference in London, she added:

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

And on another occasion:

I am convinced, she also said, that peace will come to Israel and its neighbors because the tens of millions of Arabs need peace just as much as we do. An Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any Israeli mother.

I’m affraid I can’t add a word…

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