There has been conflict in the Middle East for as long as anyone can remember. In the long drawn-out struggle in Israel between Israelis and Palestinians, civilians, including children, often become collateral damage. This song is a celebration of an organisation, “The Circle of Bereaved Families”, created by families on both sides. Their goal is to set aside hatred and move forward in a spirit of shared grief and hope.
First written in 2013, after I read the book “Nine Lives: Making the Impossible Possible” by Peter Braaksma, its sentiment has been thrown into sharp focus by Hamas’s missile attacks and hostage taking on 7th October, 2023 and the subsequent bombing of Gaza by the Israeli Defence Force, neither of which are defensible.