An ongoing conversation about America, the Middle East, and Jesus

I believe childhood’s compromise at the hand of fear is at least part of the cause of humanity’s greatest wars – such as the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

While I appreciate the immediate logic of maintaining worthy status quo defense – particularly when the lives of a country are at stake, I believe that these actions – primarily of men on both sides of the conflict – are at their deepest level very possibly exponentially excessive responses to fears borne of greatly traumatized childhoods. They are also understandable.

It takes but a quick review of history to deduce that many of these leaders suffered violence-prone childhood ascent that denied them of the gift to rationally assess their fears and source. They are also typical men and women that self-selected a career path at a relatively early age that would serve these inner drives and needs.

Thus my thesis that, regardless of the greater array of diplomatic and humane pathways to Peace, harmony and abundance, emotionally compromised humans could conceivably emerge as leaders, then propagate conflicts over peace with less because of a lacking of the full panoply of emotional tools or drivers available to a healthier human. Instead they default to leadership that, however unaware, operates in a manner that, as with bullies, forever bolsters their perceived sense of power over both imminent and long-range danger – only in their case, at the expense of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of the innocent.

They – the 25% of the population that continue or support these aberrations on both sides – are operating exponentially from fear as they forever strengthen their ramparts, all the while propagating excruciating pain upon the 75% of the masses that don’t benefit from the power and just want Peace and quality of life.

Look forward Part 4 of 8: Hope in the Face of Fear: Imagine A Campaign

Peace to All,
David Traub, Co-Founder, Unityfor.org