Second Group Meeting to "Process" What We are Experiences

In the style of what I love about Earlham College, we held a meeting so that as individuals we might share what we are experiencing as individuals -- stuff that we would like the group to call attention to.  At last night's "processing" meeting, a history professor warned us that, although the purpose is to study Palestinians and Islam here, we are mostly seeing the one-sided view of the situation here -- that some of us may be taken in and believe too much of what people are telling us. I interpreted he was saying that we are reacting emotionally to an albeit terrible situation and, if peace is an eventual goal, then we have the see the other side as real people and not the monster machine against Palestinians.  He's right when it comes to the politics, but apartheid is apartheid, ghettos are being engineered, compliance equals silence, the rich against the poor, and some with all the mobility and others with very low mobility, and guns, guns, more guns. I realize that Judaism has a long long tradition of social deprivation, but to me it is a case of a culture of the abused becoming the abuser.