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Commentary: No, the Israeli-Palestinian divide is not unbridgeable. Here’s how I know

Nichola Torbett holds a sign with other members of the group Christians for a Free Palestine during a cease-fire prayer vigil March 18, 2024, in front of the building containing U.S. Rep. Susan Wild’ s Easton, Pennsylvania, office. The local event was part of a national day of action organized by a new national coalition that says its primary concern is to end the war...

One could be forgiven for assuming the world is on the brink of collapse. There is no shortage of negativity and polarization, even for those who don’t seek it.

Social media sets negativity and division as defaults. Politicians run on them. We pass through life in a guarded posture, primed to harden our hearts to strangers.

To choose a more sanguine and conciliatory path under these man-made conditions demands an almost delusional spirit of rebellion. And yet it is possible.

The reverberations of the war in Gaza have permeated borders beyond the river and

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