Nondual Facts Can Instantly End Israeli Palestinian Misunderstanding.

This is a letter to members of the Knesset we sent on April 28, 2025.

It’s about seeing through the illusion that there even is a “them”.

What Observable Facts Tell Us About “The Other Side”

We often think of peace as a matter of compromise or compassion—an effort to understand or tolerate those on “the other side.” But from a nondual perspective—a view grounded not in politics or religion, but in the most basic and observable facts of existence—even this idea rests on a false assumption: that there are two sides at all.

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The deeper truth is this: peace is not about “them.” It’s about seeing through the illusion that there even is a “them.” It’s about waking up to the irrefutable facts of our shared, indivisible nature—beyond appearance, culture, language, or history.

Most of us live as if we are separate selves—distinct and fundamentally different from others. As if Israelis and Palestinians are two different kinds of beings. But is that really true? Is that a findable fact—or just a belief we’ve inherited and repeated until it felt real?

If Israelis and Palestinians were truly separate by nature, each group would need to be made of its own unique substance, an essence not found in the other, and be able to exist independently. And that difference would need to be observable and measurable—without relying on mental labels or stories to make it so.

Let’s set aside belief and look directly at the observable facts of life:

1. The Separate Self Is an Illusion

What we call an “Israeli” or a “Palestinian” is not a single, solid thing. Look closer: the body is a system of trillions of cells, made of atoms and molecules, all constantly changing. Those atoms were once air, water, fruit, trees, animals—even stars. They don’t belong to anyone. They belong to the universe.

The mind is no more solid or singular. It’s a stream of thoughts, sensations, memories, and perceptions—arising and passing from moment to moment. No one can point to a fixed “self” behind it all. There is no solid or separate “I” running the show. There is only unfolding—produced by the whole.

We are not singular static beings. We are dynamic processes. Like rivers, we flow. Nothing in us stands alone. None of us created ourselves.

Our true nature is not personal. It is universal—the same one life animating countless forms.

This is true for everyone, no matter what conceptual identity they were born into. No Israeli and no Palestinian exists as a permanent, separate self with a unique essence. There is only life, appearing in different forms. We give these forms names—Israeli, Palestinian, friend, enemy—but the essence behind them is the same.

There is no unique Israeli essence that isn’t also found in Palestinians—and vice versa.

2. We Did Not Create Ourselves Out of and from Ourselves.

No one chooses to be born. No one designs their own DNA, body, mind, or life story. Each of us is the result of an infinite web of external causes—genes, culture, language, history, trauma, and time. We didn’t generate ourselves. We have no internal mechanism capable of producing us into existence. We are not made from “human nature,” “animal nature,” or “tree nature.”

We are all made of the same shared reality—atoms, energy, awareness, and cause. The same physical and nonphysical ingredients reshaping and recycling into different forms. So when you look at another person, an animal, or a tree—you are seeing another version of the same whole. You see yourself.

In fact, there is no findable beginning to even the smallest part of an atom in our bodies. Every particle is made of ever-smaller parts, shaped by external forces. Nothing exists by itself, in and of itself. We are not made of our own parts. We are a continuum of something else—the whole of existence. There is no “essence” that belongs to any individual or group. Everything belongs to the whole.

So what we call “Israeli” or “Palestinian” is not a self-made identity, but an appearance shaped by conditions. There is no internal substance that crafted its own existence. We are each formed completely by life. There is no essence of “Israeliness” or “Palestinianness.” These are ideas—based on geography, language, and story. But the life within each being—the animating presence—is the same. It belongs to no one. It moves through everyone.

One life. One being. Many faces.

The problems begin when we claim ownership of our existence—as if it were our existence in isolation from all others.

“What we call ‘others’ are not others at all. They are ourselves in disguise.”

3. Identity Exists Only in the Mind

So how do we come to believe so strongly in separation? Through the mind—when it’s unaware.

The mind sees a body, hears a name, and assigns a label: Israeli. Palestinian. Enemy. Victim. Hero. Terrorist. But these are not facts of life. They are mental projections. They do not exist outside the mind.

One body is not inherently “an Israeli.” Another is not inherently “a Palestinian.” These are not facts. They are thoughts, added by thought.

When we see that labels are just labels, they begin to lose their grip. What remains is the same universal being—expressing itself in infinite ways. Through bodies, features, languages, customs, and stories. But none of these things belong to an individual or a group. They are expressions of the whole—selfless, ever-changing, infinite.

The tragedy isn’t that we use labels. It’s that we believe them. We assume our thoughts reflect reality, when they only reflect our conditioning.

The truth remains untouched: reality is whole. Every being is our own being, in a different form.

“Every cut made ‘outside’ slices through our own being.”

4. Traits Don’t Belong to Anyone.

Language, skin tone, religion, traditions, trauma—none of these are personal traits. They are movements of life passing through us. They arise and dissolve like waves in the ocean.

To say “I am Israeli, you are Palestinian” is like pointing to a wave and forgetting the ocean. These identities are fleeting appearances—not independent realities.

They can’t stand alone. They are not self-generated.

When we harm another based on a label, we are not hurting “them.” We are tearing at the fabric of life itself. And we are that fabric.

5. There Is No Hierarchy in Being

The illusion of separation creates another illusion: superiority. We imagine one group is “higher,” “more chosen,” “more advanced,” “more right.” But none of these stories hold up under the light of reality.

A child playing in Gaza and a child playing in Tel Aviv are equal expressions of the same life. One life. One ground.

There is no ladder. No one stands above. From the view of truth, all forms are equal.

6. Suffering Is Not Local

Pain does not stay where it lands. It spreads. It echoes. When one being suffers, the whole field is disturbed. The vibration reaches us all.

When we inflict pain, we don’t just wound “them.” We fracture the integrity of life itself—our life.

Nonviolence is not a moral gesture. It is clarity. When the illusion of division dissolves, hurting another simply makes no sense.

“If there are no others but ourselves disguised as others, then who else would receive the consequences of our actions but us?”

7. No One Is More Virtuous—Only More Clear

Peace is not about virtue. From a nondual view, there is no one to be virtuous. There is only clarity—or confusion.

When we see the illusion clearly, violence falls away—not because we’re being noble, but because we’re being sane. It simply doesn’t fit anymore.

No pride is necessary. Just quiet recognition: this too is me.

8. Love Without an Object

When division falls away, love is what remains. Not love for this side or that—but love itself, without object or condition.

This love doesn’t require effort. It is what we are beneath the story. It is the whole recognizing itself.

To live from this love is not to be naive. It is to return to truth.

9. The So-Called Other Is Always Identical in Silence.

Words divide. Labels separate. But silence never lies. Silence is whole—and every being carries it. Every appearance comes from it and returns to it.

Often, those who’ve been marginalized live closer to this silence. To respect them is not to elevate them—but to meet them where they already are—and to return there ourselves.

The End of Division.

Peace is not reconciliation between two sides. It is the end of sides.

It is the recognition that there are no “others.” There is only one presence, appearing in many forms.

To stop harming others is not a moral duty—it is a return home. The idea that there is anyone “else” here at all begins to dissolve.

The same life that lives as an Israeli lives as a Palestinian. You don’t need to change the world to see this. You only need to look—without labels.

Compassion is not something we offer to others.

It is what remains when we realize:

There are no others—only ourselves in countless forms.

Today, we have a rare and profound opportunity to realize a kind of peace humanity has never truly known. This peace doesn’t require compromise, negotiation, or even compassion. It only requires clarity.

Clarity that there is no other side.

There never was.

The idea of two sides—Israeli and Palestinian, self and other, us and them—is not an observable fact. It is a mental illusion. And the moment we see through it, the conflict dissolves. Enemies disappear—not through effort, but through understanding.

What remains is peace.

Real peace.

A peace rooted not in treaties or borders, but in truth.

In this truth, there is no opposition—only safety, wholeness, prosperity, and deep, lasting satisfaction. And the most astonishing part is: this is not a distant goal. It is available right now.

No struggle is required. Only the willingness to see clearly.

Help make this real—not just in policy, but in perception. Not just for others, but for yourself.

Because the moment we stop seeing enemies…

we stop creating them.