During last week's meeting with K., my Campus Conversation Partner, we walked downtown to dinner. People on the campus quad were protesting against Israel in the present Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
K. asked what was going on. Explaining that one was trickier than I could have guessed. I asked him if he knew the country Israel? No. Where Jewish people settled after WWII? No. Palestine? No. Muslim? No. Islam? No. I asked what religions he knew about. He mentioned neither Islam nor Judaism. I listed nearby countries--Syria, Egypt, Jordan. No, no, no.
I said, "They want one country to stop bombing another." He knew what that meant.
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