Looking for a better future

As I read about the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, I often find myself envisioning a strange wonder, a group of children from incredibly diverse groups, like Israeli and Palestinian toddlers, being placed together in a childcare group and finding themselves, after a few years of this kind of experience, understanding that many from both sides of this equation are best friends exhibiting so many more similarities than differences among all the toddlers. I still have a hope that one day, the human gene of hatred for the "other," will someday, like other biological cancers we have been able to control, be dispatched from our human bodies.