If I were Prime Minister of Israel Now

Given the current civil syrian war and the greater sunni-shia conflict that it encompasses between Iran and the rest of the sunni arab world -- I think a great opportunity is being lost; an opportunity for showing goodness in the world, for laying down what we as Jews should hold close to who we are as a people and as עם הנבחר -- love and striving for peace, even when it's not in our own self interest.

If i were prime minister of Israel I'd hold a press conference asking the parties in the Syrian conflict to make peace (!!!). That's right, that's what i said - to make peace.

No israeli or jew should look upon the syrian conflict as a 'good thing'. While it certainly has political and military benefits to israel - destruction of people, families of mothers and children, Life -- these are things you have to mourn for, and do what you can to protest.

Imagine what it would say, what it would mean, if the prime minister of Israel were to hold a press conference right now and call upon the related parties to find reconciliation -- it would be the most sobering powerful thing imaginable. It wouldn't be brushed aside as political self-interest, but as a pure stark truthful statement as to how destructive and bad their actions are having on the world, on their own people, the simple people, fathers mothers and children just trying to live. and they might honestly take a step back and reassess. If 'Israel' is telling us it's bad - wow, it must be really bad.

We would do this, not because it's advantageous to our own purposes or political agenda -- it of course is not by all logical accounts. but that is what being a good person, a good people is, wanting and willing to do what it takes to make the world a better place even if having to sacrfice your own personal interests.

And it would express the will of what the jewish people ought to be --- not to be the stronger army or the 'winner' in some long world evolutionary conflict. but to be a member and a partner in the greater collective good of the world and it's enterprise. a world that hopefully can ultimately see it's fellow member as brothers, cousins, and comrades -- who may at times need to 'fight issues out', but at one and the same time never losing sight of the higher common values that they share, beyond the differences of ideology or religious dogma -- Life, it's advancement, it's preserving, it's respecting. Life, Peace, and Existential Expression.

That's the opportunity of expression that's being lost here.