In an Opinion piece for Moment Mag, David K. Shipler reflects on the weight of history and memory in shaping the ongoing violence the Israeli government is waging against the people of Palestine. As a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, David speaks to the Jewish community’s traumatic past. He also urges Jewish people to honestly look at the history of oppression Israel had enacted on Palestinian people. David is the author of Pulitzer Prize winning book Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. There he discusses the diverse cultures that existed side by side in historic Palestine and the origins of the current conflict.