A Cancer in Our Midst
On putting down the knife and picking up the mirror
“The Arab is a cancer in our midst. And you don’t coexist with cancer. A cancer you either cut out and throw out or you die.”
Rabbi Meir Kahane, ideological father of the “Jewish Power” Party, late 1980s
“There is only one solution to curing a cancer, and it is the evisceration of every cancerous cell.”
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, October 17, 2023
Thirty-five years apart. Same diagnosis, same treatment, same dehumanization.
In reality, we are one body. What some perceive as cancer is a consequence of our own unresolved choices, grief, shame, pain and trauma metastasizing until it surfaces. And when it surfaces, we don’t recognize it as ours. We see an external threat reflected, so the knife comes out.
The Nakba. The walls. The checkpoints. Cutting and cutting and cutting.
But the knife can’t get to the root of our dis-ease. Without recognizing the uncomfortable source within, the fear of recurrence demands more. More surveillance. More isolation. More preventative removal.
The cancer is not something outside of us that we can simply remove, it is everything inside of ourselves that we refuse to face.
Healing begins when we put down the knife, and pick up the mirror.
שלם
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This is so true! Zionists have severe unresolved “Historical Trauma”. No cutting and murdering millions of Palestinians will fix this problem. Only self-reflection, truthful soul searching, and in-depth healing will resolve their historical trauma, and their utter wish to murder every human being in their way! They have inflicted their hatred and self hatred on this world , and it is now time to stop and reflect!
This was a lovely short piece that will stay with me. The cutting metaphor is terrible and illustrative.