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I know what PTSD tunnel vision and hypervigilance feel like personally. I think post-traumatic psychology plays a big role in the debate over Israel.
Researchers have discovered that children of Holocaust survivors can pick up secondary PTSD from knowing how their family members suffered. It's probably the same for survivors of suicide bombings and their relatives.
It can be very hard to get beyond post-traumatic psychology. Even harder when political players on the right are taking advantage of it and tweaking people's traumas all the time for their own advantage.
I hope the founders of J Street will bring some healing reason to this extremely emotion-filled and trauma-filled arena.
