Avner Gvaryahu Analysis

The conflict, in the first part of the podcast, is about a group of Israeli ex military service members talking about their experiences, because of the empathy towards the Palestinian families, the Israeli government sees this a a form of treason. The second conflict is about a professor in a Palestinian professor, who had to flee his country because he spoke about trying to empathize and having peace with the Israeli people. In the first story, Avner Gvaryahu was a former paratrooper for the Israeli military. He was raised in a religious household, went to a religious high school. At first he saw his actions as what he was supposed to do. But after he encountered a Palestinian family during a mission, he saw the fear in their eyes. He saw an old woman …show more content…
He fled Palestine in order to save his own life. With his new enlightenment, he decided to share that new way of thinking with his students. Although his intentions were good, he was received with tremendous hate. He received death threats, lost his job, and his car was set on fire. These two stories give us insight on how we as people don’t forgive easily. In the beginning, the narrator says “One of the most enduring psychological drives in human nature is to be part of a tribe. When someone in our tribe starts seeing things from the point of view from another tribe, we have a name for people like that: traitors.” This shows that our nature is to focus our own well being for the people that are “like us” is the priority. As soon as you stop to think of what you are doing to the other person, you become the enemy. Forgiveness is the hardest thing for anyone to do. That’s because it's hard to tell the person that has hurt you deeply that it is alright. To tell someone that you have every reason to hate and be against them that you won’t take any action of aggression to them, but be understanding and compassionate is tough. So we, as humans, don't generally do