Which angle are you looking from?

As proof of my procrastination, I've read lots of NON-Medical books. (Which I will pay dearly if I fail my OSCE+Viva & not go back to Malaysia)

These 2 books present history; more specifically Israel's birth after WW2 from two different perspectives.

Golda Meir was Israel's 1st woman prime minister; a staunch Zionist.
Elias Chacour is a Palestinian Bishop.

Golda Meir writes about her life; the struggles as a young child living in poverty in America, her migration to a newly born Israel, the difficulties faced in a young country with not much infrastructure, lots of suspicion from their surrounding neighbours and the Yom Kippur war (which was a tactical surprise attack from Egypt and Syria on a "holy & rest" day for Israel). Clearly she was a formidable woman and from what she writes, you get the idea that Israel was a young country constantly under threat. And who can forget the reason Israel was created in the 1st place; to create a country where the displaced Jews who suffered under Hilter could call home.

Elias Chacour writes also about his life; running around the lush orchards of Galilee as a young boy, seeing the valleys Jesus himself must have walked, how the new Israel military evicted his whole village from their houses, how his family lost their orchards and almost their lives and how he chose to return to Israel from Europe. His story gives voice to a forgotten group of people, those who equally deserve the rights to a home of their own, people who have lived in the same land for generations, only to wake up and be called foreigners after a UN resolution.

Everyone has a side to the story.
And often times, no one is wrong.

How unique and how much more understanding we will have if only we get to hear the other side of the story. Which is why I think Clint Eastwood's take on the battle of Iwo Jima really smart!
(he filmed 2 different films about the same battle; one in Japanese to tell the story from the Japanese perspective, the other from the American perspective...and I can't believe I watched a war movie just because I wanted to see how he did it..! )


One day perhaps a dual story will be told by God; from His perspective and from mine.
But for now, it's time to stow away my side of the story.