June 2009

Empathy is the only sure way to achieve peace

Inspired by an article in the Jewish Chronicle by Simon Baron-Cohen and Avi Machlis, I’ve been thinking about the need for empathy, and ways to enhance it. Baron-Cohen and Machlis define empathy as “the ability to imagine someone else’s thoughts and feelings”, and decries the apparent lack of this ability on either side of the Israeli-Palestinian

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