How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The world changed on 7th October 2023 when Hamas made incursions into Israeli territory resulting in 1200 deaths and 251 hostages. The response by Israel's government and military has since brought terrible destruction to Gaza killing over 60000 people with 2.3 million forced from their homes. How have we allowed it to happen? What can we say?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One group of twelve child psychiatrists psychologists and psychotherapists - with children's welfare much in mind - met fortnightly to discuss the insurmountable difficulties of the Palestine-Israel conflict and their feelings about the horror streaming daily on their media. Can such matters be discussed in a group? Can minds be changed? Deep disagreement and pain - yet nothing near the pain experienced in Gaza. Silence can't be the response.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some of the collection's contributors come from Palestinian or Jewish heritage others from different but divided conflicted backgrounds. Their history goes back to the Balfour Declaration and to the Holocaust. A mother who lived through </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kristallnacht;</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a father from Jaffa with shrapnel head injuries during the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nakba.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> The group shares memories reflections essays and poems in a courageous effort to urge us all towards sense empathy and a more complex understanding of the catastrophe before our very eyes.</span></p>