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.
I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.
What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
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