The ones who bear more guilt are those from the powerful of the two sides, the ones with less fear of the other, the ones who should have been able to think and act more rationally.
There’s this thing called the Doomsday Clock. No, it’s not a real clock hanging off an old tower somewhere. It’s a virtual one that doesn’t exist physically except in people’s minds.
The clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight. If the clock ever strikes midnight, that means the bad stuff has hit the fan and the world is burning: somebody has started a nuclear strike, somebody else has replied, and we’re all in a world of hurt, assuming we’re not lucky enough to perish immediately.
Life hasn’t felt as perilous as it is lately, especially for those of us who grew up in the relatively calm times of the last few decades under the Pax Americana, enjoying the “peace dividends” of the triumph of capitalism over communism. There’s never been as much desperation in the region as there is now. In the old days, there would be the occasional conventional wars, mostly won by the Israelis, followed by a period of calm, or as after the latest war in 1973, actually followed by a formal and official peace.
I remember a person saying regarding the decades long “troubles” between the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland, that if you were to be born where they were born, and were taught what they were taught, you would believe what they believe. In my mind, the guilty one, or the guiltier one, is the more powerful of the two sides. The more powerful are those with the more options, the ones who are able to make concessions because they are strong, and the ones who have less fear of the other side. In other words, the ones who should have been able to think and act more rationally.
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