It's a pleasure to read all of this, you write really well. The way you described the museum especially was fantastic, and the points you're making are fascinating! To try and figure out all the different religious and political (nationalistic) aspects must have been a challenge, but it's cool to read how it all comes together bit by bit. On fejsbuckj one of my old classmates from gymnasiet just put up a bunch of pictures from her own trip to Eilat - and the contrast of those pictures to your trip is mind-boggling: she's mainly in the hotel swimmingpool, wearing a bikini with the USA flag on it >_< Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
Thank you! I appreciate this comment to no end :) Mind boggling things are fascinating, trying to figure out context and understanding things that don't make sense is so damn invigorating. Ours was a very short trip, so it's all very limited, but we did do a bunch of things and tried to get to the root of what we saw there.
I've been interested in the conflict for quite some time, like a lot of people who are curious about world politics. As for my sister, she hadn't really read up on things at all in beforehand, so seeing her reactions to some of the things we saw on our trip was pretty enlightening too. The outrage on some things that were obviously so damn fucked up and the sadness of realizing how similar everyone we met were in our eyes, yet they still hated each other to no end. "I want to do something, I want to get involved, but I don't know how." She said that after we left West Bank. Yeah. How to get involved? Sign petitions. Talk to people about the things you saw. The means to effect things are pretty damn limited to us.
It's a depressing thing to realise, the fact that there's little one can do, yeah :( Though talking about it does make a difference in making people aware. Though, sadly, I think that for a Northern European, white, atheist female the offer of help and involvement in a strongly local and religiously ideological conflict is even less welcome. And either way, the political pressure has to come from the UN, and even then, it's not effective enough to change anything happening within and outside the walls they've built. Wow, one of my more pessimistic ramblings >_< Though, there are always people reaching out and getting international support and driving issues that will make changes, so signing petitions isn't a waste of time, in the long run :)
Yeah, wanting to help is a fight against windmills, but getting so frustrated that you rather not care, helps even less. Signing petitions isn't a waste of time in the long run, as you said :P There so much injustice in the world, that's just how it is. We can be aware of it, realize our limitations in effecting it and try to not let it overwhelm us and turn us cynical. You can eventually turn it all around in your head: when you realize how hopeless it is to effect things, you can really enjoy the little successes. Change is infinitely slow but it happens. I'm a total optimist! People are silly things but very lovable all the same. We don't have to try to achieve world peace, exactly. We can show support and maybe change the life or views of one person now and then.
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I've been interested in the conflict for quite some time, like a lot of people who are curious about world politics. As for my sister, she hadn't really read up on things at all in beforehand, so seeing her reactions to some of the things we saw on our trip was pretty enlightening too. The outrage on some things that were obviously so damn fucked up and the sadness of realizing how similar everyone we met were in our eyes, yet they still hated each other to no end. "I want to do something, I want to get involved, but I don't know how." She said that after we left West Bank. Yeah. How to get involved? Sign petitions. Talk to people about the things you saw. The means to effect things are pretty damn limited to us.
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