Molly Charles-Reflections

  How can Israel bring Peace? How can Israel bring Peace? When it is alien to its very fabric, How can Israel bring Peace? when it alienated itself from the concept of Peace, by its birth, through its journey of being and its existential goal, How can Israel bring Peace, when from its existence, it aimed at fragmentation of its neighbouring States to ensure security in regional dominance, How can Israel bring peace? When it leans on military and iron dome for its security and resultant Peace- absence of violence, How can Israel bring Peace? When Military brings deterrence but not Peace, for any infrastructure, equipment can be breached. Israel can bring Tech Security but Peace remains evasive. How can Israel bring Peace? When its identity is measured by purity and equality is evasive within the frame of a nation. How can Israel bring Peace? When its marginalization comes from a position of power, being the chosen one and dictates behaviour style for others but never reflects on it...

 Molly Charles (1) Margin, a term familiar from tender age; notebooks with clear cut margins to delineate the main body of text, define it. The margins give it definite shape, a practice that continues into the virtual world. Among humans, it is these margins that give identity to the large majority we term normal. The often, porous boundaries offer a chance for individuals to slip through and slip back into either ‘normal’ or ‘marginal’ spaces. The decision to identify with marginal groups or positions can be a conscious one as with (gender identity, drug use), enforced as in (mental health, racial and caste based discrimination) and accidental for (drug use, stigmatized diseases). In certain instances, as with mental health, some individuals may find their being part of marginal groups a permanent reality, in most other instances individuals do move in and out of marginal groups, as a survival strategy to deal with marginalization. Even when physical spaces merge, with an emph...