Discussion on Trauma in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Now, not everybody is going to agree with me, I get it.

And I also understand

on both the sides of this debate, we're also dealing with

a lot of trauma, a lot of trauma.

I understand that for a lot of Jewish Americans, there's the trauma of the

Holocaust and the need to have a, a refuge. I understand that.

And I also understand that for a lot of Palestinian Americans

and Palestinians

everywhere, there's the trauma of the Nakba

and the great displacement of people

told that they were just going to be able to come home in a couple of days, never,

ever to be able to go back.

We've got to be able to create the circumstances within which both of these

deeply traumatized people

can have a conversation built on principle.

But to me, the answer has to be principle.

It has to be