The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of communication for peaceful coexistence between conflicting groups.
Reuven Rivlin highlights the deep-rooted conflict in the Middle East, which has persisted for over a century. He stresses that for Jews and Arabs to coexist peacefully, it is essential to foster communication and understanding, transforming their relationship from one of forced proximity to one of destined harmony and mutual respect.
In practice
In a speech addressing community leaders, one might say, 'As Reuven Rivlin put it, we must find ways to communicate to ensure a peaceful coexistence.'
The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
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