BARK's Yelps

Over the past week an argument that has been argued for more than half a century has done the inevitable. It has gotten longer. And yet to this day no more substance is in it than when our grandparents argued this malarkey. In essence we continue to do what we did as a child. Point fingers.

We argue back and forth about who started it. It is useless. Our parents taught us to accept when we do something wrong. Funny thing is that all I see happen as we get older is we find ways to circumvent the rules we will someday teach our children. Whatever happened to two wrongs don’t make a right?

Listen, this is the first time in history that we can see the whole world wide over. Our parents only heard about Israel in Church. Odds are they never knew a Palestinian. Today we do; especially here on this campus (University of Houston). We can see both sides in living color. And what are we going to do with our new found treasure trove of experience? Walk in with preconceived notions and point them out in front of everyone.

Right, we argue it in class while we look at our professor, not our opponent. But outside of class we all get along fine. The religion center really is a great place. Why are we going to continue our parents’ argument? The way I see it they are both enemies. That is agreeable no? They are in a war, or at least, a continuation of hostilities with intermittent period of relative calm, no? In war the worst in people comes out. They both do evil things. When a kid in Tel- Aviv dies from some whack job who thinks Allah EVER sanctions suicide; a kid in Tel- Aviv dies. When the IDF tanks destroy a building and a kid in Gaza dies; a kid in Gaza dies, ok! There is no right in that. EVER! And I don’t care who started it. Who is going to stop it?

This generation has a chance to do things no generation ever has before. Forget right or wrong, had we put as much money into R&D for cancer, and AIDS, with the minds we have today, and the availability of information, as we have put into the war, we would have cured both of them. That is real! If you take all the scientific advances our grandparents saw in their lifetime, and squashed it into ten years, I doubt that would be able to hold a candle to the last ten years we just saw.

Are we seriously going to sit at the footstep of this chance for real world change and continue the fights of our elders? Everyday, we, sounding more and more immature?