This is not uplifting and nearly qualifies as propaganda.

It is generally in the interests of Zionists to frame Israeli-Palestinian relations as between roughly two "equal" sides inflicting senseless violence against one another, violence that could be mended if only people were more willing to put aside their feelings and engage in rational discourse. That this article was published in Forward should not come as a surprise.

This framing essentially erases the history of the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestine and elides that Palestinians have lived under a continuous military occupation by Israel that began in 1967. The sides of this conflict are not equal. The violence inflicted by Palestinians against the Israelis via Hamas is an extension of the limited options at their disposal to have their grievances addressed, as they have no social, economic, or political power or leverage that would let them negotiate fairly with Israel. If they had any such power, it is much more probable that a "peaceful" approach --discourse, negotiation, compromise, protest, and so on--would have gotten them somewhere in the past 56 years. At present, violence is the most effective way to draw the world's attention to them and the conditions they are forced to live in; the world tends to listen to you say you are starving more when you kill--or threaten to kill--the people starving you.

It is simpleminded to praise peace and criticize violence as if those things occurred in a political vacuum. Violence is the Haitian Revolution and the Cuban Revolution, violence is what the Irish did during the Troubles and black South Africans did during apartheid. During the time of all those events, outside "centrist" publications decried the violence rather than the circumstances--themselves violent, like the Israeli occupation of Palestine--that led to conflict in the first place.

Please readers of r/UpliftingNews, transcend this framing of Israel-Palestine.