Sadley I do as well. At lease under the current Israeli government. I have to say that I have more faith in the average Jew to be better representatives of mankind than Natanyahyu and his war cabinet.

There are good Jewish people and bad jewish people. There are good Palestenians and bad ones. This is true of every nationality, every religion, the common denominator is that people can be eather, and this is true everwhere.

When I was growing up I had one of my best friends was Jewish. We sometimes talked about religin.I'm Catholic. He invited me tohis bar mitzvah. He was truly excited when I came.

I have a number of good Jewish friend among the writers that I would call a part of my trib. Writers that share work and stay in contact. The subject of the war in Gaza has come up several times, Every one of these friends have express deep concern for Netanyahu and his cabinet. They have deplored the killing of innicent people, especially the women and children. They of course want to see the hostages returned to Israel, but most tell me that they hold out for a 2 state sulitionand the two coexhist long into the future,

A dream you say? Perhaps. We don't need anymore nightmares. We must work for peace, not retrobution.