Astoundingly horrific. I didn’t know about the Parsley Massacre. But episodes like this in our sacred texts have a very very important function: to help us know that we are capable of genocide, like everyone else. It’s not inhuman, it’s all too human -- and we are part of the human family, vulnerable to every evil and susceptible to every beauty. Our cuturally inherited superiority and victim complex blinds us. But maybe only when we are blinded and know we are blinded can we truly see... so much better in the dark.
Astoundingly horrific. I didn’t know about the Parsley Massacre. But episodes like this in our sacred texts have a very very important function: to help us know that we are capable of genocide, like everyone else. It’s not inhuman, it’s all too human -- and we are part of the human family, vulnerable to every evil and susceptible to every beauty. Our cuturally inherited superiority and victim complex blinds us. But maybe only when we are blinded and know we are blinded can we truly see... so much better in the dark.
Then there's an entire episode on West Wing that bears this word as its title.
Moshe Sokolow’s 929 article: From the West Bank to the West Wing: https://www.929.org.il/lang/en/page/223/post/55824