The Gaza Doctor: Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish at Indigo Books & Music

[bassammaelborno]

Even Mahatma Gandhi didn't view himself as idealistic;

"I have learned one supreme lesson through bitter experience, and that is to conserve my anger. Just as heat can be conserved and then transmuted into energy, so can our controlled anger be transmuted into a power which can move the world."

[bassammaelborno]

Someone should ask his daughters if they Hate being dead ?

[bassammaelborno]

He would have garnered more respect if he merely acknowledged these, and then put them in proper perspective (angry at injustice and hatred for it's display).

[bassammaelborno]

Of course, he like any normal person, becomes emotionally angry when having to contend with injustice.

Presumably too, like any normal person, he experiences, from time to time, a conscious expression of this very same emotion, in the form of hatred.

Understandably, in his case, and to his credit, he has not generalized this, nor should he.

However, to simply deceive himself, and others, into thinking that he has neither anger nor hate, borders on hypocrisy.