Lessons from T.E. Lawrence in the madness of today

“Aurance … not this … go spherical … Damascus Aurence … Damascus …”

Sherif Ali, pleads with T.E. Lawrence, to not kill a helpless Turkish troop practice.

“No prisoners …” says one Arab fighter.

This, after the Turks massacred an Arab village. Talal’s village.

Talal pulls his sword, spurs his darkish horse and costs into the Turkish line.

He’s gunned down as he gallops. His blood within the sand. Lawrence is incensed … the massacre begins. No prisoners.

Such is the legend, the story, of Lawrence of Arabia.

It’s mentioned, that Lawrence believed taking prisoners wouldn’t solely burden his small drive however might additionally doubtlessly compromise their mission.

All of them needed to die. All of them.

As as I write this, Israel faces the identical problem.

The atrocities in opposition to Israeli civilians have piled up so excessive, solely vengeance is left.

Solely vengeance.

And sure, many will die. Many can pay the value, of Medieval justice, it doesn’t matter what Israel says.

It doesn’t matter what President Joe Biden says.

I shudder to suppose, what is going to come subsequent. Revenge can be swift and unforgiving.

That is the world, circa 2023, my pals.

As Mahatma Gandhi as soon as mentioned, “An eye fixed for an eye fixed will solely make the entire world blind.” So true. Maybe all of us are blind?

And as Israel wields the sword of justice, which it has a proper to do, I’m wondering what can be achieved in the long run. Do they also have a plan, after Gaza is “cleansed.”

In keeping with sources, they don’t. They don’t have an effing clue what to do, after they wreak havoc on Hamas and, sadly, the Palestinian folks.

In my humble opinion … everybody, on this affair is responsible.

The Palestinians. The Israelis. The People. And even you and me. We’re all responsible of not caring or understanding. 

Refusing to know the Arab mind-set. Blaming Israel, amongst our best allies, for all the pieces that has gone unsuitable within the Mideast.

We react, with indignation, as Arab nations cheer the inhuman reign of terror inflicted by Hamas on helpless Israeli residents.

We don’t perceive it — it’s past our scope. Past my scope.

I can’t watch CNN anymore and see the tales of brutality in opposition to non-combatants in villages. Mercilessly hunted down and killed of their beds and cribs.

Horrifying. Greater than as soon as, it has introduced me to tears.

I’m, Talal. If I had a black horse to experience, I might pull out my sword. Maintain it excessive. Trip into the fireplace.

However amidst this horror, this utter horror, is there a voice of cause? A approach out? An finish to the killing. An finish to spilling extra blood within the sand?

Sure, there’s. It’s solely a glimmer, nevertheless it’s actual, it exists.

When Eyal Waldman thinks of his murdered youngest daughter and her boyfriend, he sees them dancing.

“Danielle and Noam liked dancing, and I hope they proceed dancing someplace up there,” Eyal Waldman advised MarketWatch.

Danielle Waldman and Noam Shay had been killed at a music pageant in southern Israel final week, a part of a marketing campaign by the Hamas terrorist group.

Eyal Waldman, a onetime Israeli fight fighter, based tech firm Mellanox in 1999 and offered it 20 years later to Nvidia for US$6.9 billion. 

He’s identified internationally for trying to foster peace between Israelis and Palestinians by way of his work in expertise — Mellanox employed Palestinian tech employees in Gaza, Nablus and the West Financial institution city of Rawabi.

The dying of his daughter and Shay and the scope of the assaults and counter-attacks dominating headlines haven’t modified Waldman’s hope for peace, he mentioned, however not within the close to future. 

He believes this time, the violence “took us again a number of years, if not a long time.”

“We’d like time to construct the belief, if in any respect, between the 2 nations and begin working collectively to have the ability to discuss peace,” he mentioned. “Till then, we’ll proceed defending ourselves in a really direct method in Gaza and in all places else round Israel.”

Waldman additionally mentioned he would proceed to attempt to rent Palestinians and work with them to be part of the Israeli tech ecosystem, so long as they state “that they’re working for peace and they aren’t supporting — not financially and never in every other approach — any terror actions, or any actions that aren’t civilian economics between the 2 nations.”

“Our fingers are at all times reaching out for peace. However on the identical time, earlier than we do that, we want folks to know that Israel is robust, Israel is united and we’ll by no means let anybody hurt the residents of the State of Israel once more.”

A voice of cause within the insanity.

“They liked to have a good time life,” Waldman mentioned of his daughter and her boyfriend.

“And so they went down on Friday night time to have a good time life, love and freedom, they usually had been massacred.”

A person of this character, doesn’t come round typically, my pals.

However don’t hand over hope.

The Eyal Waldmans of the world, do exist. They do.

And they’re one of the best of us.