{"id":29783,"date":"2014-07-09T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=29783"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:38:29","slug":"ronen-green-pain-and-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=29783","title":{"rendered":"Ronen Green: Pain and Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pain and fear. Sometimes it feels like our existence in this place is defined by those words.\u00a0 If you have been following the news with growing despair – the murders of four boys and the ensuing escalating violence, take a moment to listen to a different voice. Ronen Green speaks for me, and I believe he speaks for many of us – Jews and Arabs, when he sings “I know there’s something better than just pain and fear.”<\/p>\n

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As someone who has grown up in Israel, and has chosen to build his life here, he writes from experience “I carried on my shoulders a gun for three years,” and the clarity of knowing that the cycle of violence cannot, must not continue, and the burden is on us – all of us – to speak out. Entrusting our lives and the lives of our loved ones to the politicians and policy makers, Green says “you let them play with the lives of your children\/just accept what they say\/while they justify war and crime and defense.” If we do not speak out, then we condemn ourselves to lives of violence, pain and fear.<\/p>\n

It’s not simple, it’s far from simple. I just can’t understand why the voices calling for peace are somehow never as loud as those inciting to war, like Ronen, I keep asking, “so how come my voice just gets lost in the fight?”<\/p>\n

But I know there’s something better than just pain and fear.
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Pain and fear. Sometimes it feels like our existence in this place is defined by those words.\u00a0 If you have been following the news with growing despair – the murders of four boys and the ensuing escalating violence, take a moment to listen to a different voice. Ronen Green speaks for me, and I believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}