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Nov 11 17 tweets 7 min read
“This is the background..
You couldn’t have created that Jewish exclusive state without oppressing or expelling the local population
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th & 21st Century & it’s still ongoing “
#Nakba

From An Infant Survivor of the #Holocaust
He compares the situation in Israel to his experience with the Holocaust. Maté writes, that “as a Jewish youngster growing up in Budapest, an infant survivor of the Nazi genocide, I was for years haunted by a question resounding in my brain with such force that sometimes my head
I was for years haunted by a question resounding in my brain with such force that sometimes my head would spin: ‘How was it possible?
How could the world have let such horrors happen?’
It was a naïve question, that of a child. I know better now: such is reality.”
Those same questions – “How could the world let such horrors happen?” and “How was it possible?” – could apply to the Israel-Palestine conflict, where the culmination of the 1948 War only left years of terror and conflict in The Holy Land.

promisedlandmuseum.org/gabor-mate/
“humanity stands by either complicitly or unconsciously
or helplessly.”

He speaks of Gaza today, where he has observed people “justifying the bombing of hospitals,
the annihilation of families at dinner,
the killing of pre-adolescents playing soccer on a beach.”
Maté acknowledges that Israel wants peace, but also insists that there is something more to it.
“As veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has pointed out,” Maté writes, “[Israel] does not want a just peace. Occupation and creeping annexation, an inhumane blockade
not want a just peace.
Occupation &creeping annexation, an inhumane blockade, the destruction of olive groves, the arbitrary imprisonment of thousands, torture, daily humiliation of civilians, house demolitions: these are not policies compatible with any desire 4 a just peace.”
A Conversation with Russell Brand
In May 2021,
Maté shared his heartfelt feelings with actor Russell Brand about Israel/ Palestine.
Brand described the conversation with Maté as, “the most beautiful & powerful testimony on this subject I’ve ever heard.”

Brand is well-known for and outspoken about his struggles with addiction. So, perhaps he more than anyone can understand Maté’ – who has conducted not only research on addiction but also on child development and trauma – when he talks about how terror affects the body.
The Israel-Palestine conflict has left survivors and victims on both sides – many of whom that deal with trauma today. Recently,

Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza caused the death of 2131 Palestinians, with 1473 identified as civilians, including 501 children
501 children according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OHCA). The OHCA reported that 373,000 children dealt with the effects in their bodies that Maté studies.
A Gateway to Healing

“From someone with deep connections 2the history of this situation,” Maté says he understands “the warmth tht Jews have for Israel; I used 2be in tht same camp
I can understand, after the horrors of the Nazi genocide, how we desperately want some protection
I can understand all that.
But none of the excuses what we are doing…there are no two sides…in terms of power and control and its pretty straightforward.
There was a land with a people living there & other people wanted it, they took it over, and they continue to take it over
In his TEDx talk, “The Power of Addiction and the Addiction of Power” Maté explores how addictions can be both chemical dependencies but also to things like power.
This research is relevant because the Israel-Palestine conflict is surely a struggle of power –
This research is relevant because the Israel-Palestine conflict is surely a struggle of power – where one group of people has too much & the other has very little.
In his documentary, The Wisdom of Trauma, Maté explores how acknowledging & sharing our deepest pain can create a
In his documentary, The Wisdom of Trauma, Maté explores how acknowledging and sharing our deepest pain can create a gateway to healing
History teaches us that it is wrong to mistreat any group of people – & the Israel-Palestine Conflict is one that requires healing on both sides.
Gabor Maté’s research on trauma and pain has created his unique perspective.

Living in a family of holocaust survivors has helped him draw balance and empathy when observing the events of the Israel-Palestine conflict

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