"Ishmael and Isaac"
This
is a video for my song "Ishmael and Isaac," which I wrote
some years back about the Arab/Israeli conflict.
I hope it will be received more as a work of art than as a
political statement, although I am quite aware that people
will lay their own political views on top of it. The real
message of the song and video is that war is not the
ultimate answer. The message is not the assigning of blame
in a situation that is quite complex and nuanced.
Click
here
if you can't see the video player above. (Direct link to
the video)
I am aware that the religious and cultural issues are more
challenging than blithely quoting a Bible verse. But I am
equally aware that the the metaphor of "sibling rivalry"
--when seen at a macro-level, perhaps even a mythological
one-- is not only appropriate, but perhaps has no more
powerful cultural incarnation than this current conflict.
Here's to continued prayers for our world, and especially
for warring peoples who have not yet found the way to
peace.