Our Responsibility to End the Cycle of Violence
A Call for Justice and Change

http://www.zochrot.org/publication_articles/view/56535/en?pstrongOur_Responsibility_to_End_the_Cycle_of_Violence_A_Call_for_Justice_and_Changestrongp
Date Written:  2023-10-24
Publisher:  Zochrot
Year Published:  2023
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25375

Truth telling and pointing out colonial structures of power and oppression has always been our mission, and so it remains. Because as long as those structures remain, nobody can live in true safety.

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The responsibility to end the cycle of violence rests with us, and it should be achieved through decolonization. When every peaceful or disciplined way towards liberation is blocked, oppressed people will respond with violence to decades of violence inflicted on them. The killing of innocents, especially children, is never justified, yet the only way to prevent it is to dismantle the systems of oppression that are the root cause of all the violence we've witnessed.

Blaming others for the violence we endure should not surprise us if we choose silence and benefit from the privileges at the expense of another population. We have the power to make a difference. We have been part of a cycle of violence for 75 years, and it's time to explore a different path.