GOLDA MEIR SAID

Golda Meir (former Prime Minister of Israel) said, "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."

There will never be sulcha - forgiveness - without learning that we are all children, Jews and Arabs. And there will never be learning so long as the people are exploited by their political and religious leaders to go out and "Kill the other!"

The world must know the difference between aggressive killing and killing in self defense. Since Israel evacuated Gaza, more than 6,000 rockets have been fired into Israel with aggressive intent to kill. Arab terrorist groups have sent suicide bombers into Israel on "Holy" missions to become martyrs by killing Jews.

Imams, Kadis, "Holy" men, preach death to the Jews as a holy mission. More than 70,000 Iranis volunteered to become martyrs by killing Jews in Israel when their president declared that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth.

How can peace be achieved in the face of this holy war against a People whose crime is existence? How can the children of Jews and Arabs be saved from the slaughter of these religionists? Where in the Koran can be found the solution to this enigma?

If history teaches a lesson here, there is no solution based on anything that is presently being done. Teaching our children to make war no more is not happening. Until that teaching takes place, they will die ever more excruciating deaths, as will their parents and their children.