- 以色列和阿拉伯是永恒之谜。从圣经的创世纪开始，本是同胞手足，却你死我活。在圣经里，先是上帝选择了以色列，抛弃了阿拉伯。可是后来，以色列背叛了上帝，也遭到了上帝的惩罚。
我读了圣经，也读了以色列的历史。相信圣经的人坚信：以色列的复国，是神的预言和作为。历史学家却有着自己的解释。
旧约里的神，是严厉的神；新约里耶稣，却是爱。耶稣自己是犹太人，犹太教和基督教的区别就是如何看待耶稣。
美国帮助以色列的原因，从宗教的角度讲，是相信以色列是神的选民。可是，我不明白：以色列相信犹太教，而美国则是一个基督教的国家……
以色列诗人Yehuda Amichai 这样写道：
Seven Laments for the War Dead
Is all of this
sorrow? I don't know.
I stood in the cemetery dressed in
the camouflage clothes of a living man: brown pants
and a shirt yellow as the sun.
Cemeteries are cheap; they don't ask for much.
Even the wastebaskets are small, made for holding
tissue paper
that wrapped flowers from the store.
Cemeteries are a polite and disciplined thing.
"I shall never forget you," in French
on a little ceramic plaque.
I don't know who it is that won't ever forget:
he's more anonymous than the one who died.
Is all of this sorrow? I guess so.
"May ye find consolation in the building
of the homeland." But how long
can you go on building the homeland
and not fall behind in the terrible
three-sided race
between consolation and building and death?
Yes, all of this is sorrow. But leave
a little love burning always
like the small bulb in the room of a sleeping baby
that gives him a bit of security and quiet love
though he doesn't know what the light is
or where it comes from.
July