Most people characterize the attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas on Oct. 7 as barbaric and savage. Others choose to condemn the unjust slaughter of an estimated 35,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the aftermath of the Hamas attack.
A recent New York Times article highlighted the work of the Nassars, a Christian Palestinian family that operates an olive farm, children’s camp and other programs in the West Bank to promote understanding and nonviolence between Arabs and Jews, even as this family nonviolently resists confiscation of their land by nearby Israeli settlers. One might criticize this family’s work as naive. For myself, I see this approach as the only viable road to achieving long-term harmony and tolerance between the two camps.
