An Eye for an Eye

Mahatma Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." Gandhi believed in passive resistance as a means to combat the violence in his native India, but also in the world, a movement which gained momentum with Martin Luther King. If we look at the history of world violence, we can see that WAR has never been a solution to injustice, and mostly serves to accomplish nothing.

This past week, two terrible murders by police officers of Black men resulted in one lone gunman pulling out his gun in Dallas, Texas and killing five policemen. Israel and Palestine, unfortunately, have engaged in the same methodology-stabbings by Palestinians have resulted in gunfire from Israelis. I sincerely believe this warfare is NOT a solution, that there has to be some way, somehow that peaceful negotiation is a possibility. This is the dream behind RONIT AND JAMIL.