John Launer: Israel and Gaza—recognising shared human values

All Muslim and Jewish doctors, and many of other faiths or none, will have felt tormented by the recent horrific events in Israel and Gaza. I share with many colleagues not only a sense of despair at the inhumanity of these events but also one of helplessness, in the face of the unfathomably destructive forces underlying them. Anyone with connections to the region will have been especially affected. I have relatives on one side of the border between Israel and the Palestinian territories, as well as friends and colleagues on both sides of it.I’ve visited and taught in medical schools in both places. I know at first hand that seeing young people eat, drink, joke, and flirt in a bar in Ramallah is almost identical to observing the same scene in Tel Aviv, apart from a different alphabet on the menu. Only the tragic and divisive history of that part…
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