(A caveat: at the tender age of 20, I lived and worked on the Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, visited and was stunned into silence at Yad Vashem and later Dachau, and my BA was in Middle Eastern History. )

First, good call on unravelling the sticky cobwebs of complexity and not dumbing the history down to simplisitic jargon.

Second, Canada took a page from South Africa's 'Truth and Reconciliation' process when we tried to clean out the attic and the cellar and our current 'living room' over the abysmal treatment of our Indigenous peoples.

It meant that we had to listen to the hard brutal truth, we had to pour through horrific documents, the trans-generational willful ignoring of religious often sexual degradation, the purposeful starving of Residential School children for 'scientific purposes': all of which earned my country the mantle of having practised cultural genocide.

I sat through two days of testimony at Vancouver, some of the elders speaking in whispers about what went on, what it meant to be a 'guard's boy' and have good teeth and clothes and better food: unlike the other children.

So, if it was good enough for South Africa and Canada, then surely it can be good enough for Israel and the Palestinians?

And perhaps house is not an apt metaphor. And working through the process would not be like getting lost in a cobwebbed maze.

No, the better metaphor for their Truth and Reconciliation process must be the labyrinth.

A way in and a way out.

Of course, it would mean that Israel and the three branches of Arabs under their aegis: Israeli Arab citizens, stateless Gazans and West Bank Arabs living under military occupation, as well as those still living in refugee camps, must be welcomed to the T&R table.

That means that the Mossad, Hamas (democratically elected BTW) and PLO intelligence gathering and assassination and divisive orchestrating war data -- including torture - - all must be documented, and those still alive who played a role in such, be allowed to tell their stories without threats of judicial punishment.

And that means that the religious Abrahamic extremists on both sides of the spectrum, (BTW have you checked out what the Ultra-Orthodox think of LGBTQ?) should not be welcomed to the table.

Who really wants a mean-spirited Bronze Age egocentric, jealous and vengeful, wrathfully bloodthirsty, misandric often genocidal deity sitting around any rational discussion table?

Please, this 'God' promised you the land that was already populated by Canaanites and Philistines and Phoenicians and later Assyrians and Greeks and Ottomans to name but a few? How long ago was that?

Lastly, any T&R process must start with some very basic truths:

The Palestinians had nothing to do with European genocidal madness. Nada. Therefore, why should they pay and pay and continue to pay?

Any criticism of Israel as a state, even though it has declared itself a Jewish state with a 20% Arab non-Jewish minority population, should not automatically be considered anti-Semitic.

Israel was founded in part through the actions of three terrorist organizations: the Irgun, the Haganah and the Stern Gang, later the Lehi.

For decades, they assassinated moderate Arab mayors, bombed civilians be they Druze or Muslim or Christian and killed British soldiers. All in order to destabilize the British Protectorate and create Arab refugees fleeing the violence. They were not nice people, they were terrorists who were later welcomed into the Israeli military, despite the massacres in Arab villages like Deir Yassin ('48).

And later in the modality of their progenitors, they committed the Kafr Qasim village massacre in 1956. And that's not even getting into the '82 Israeli- controlled Christian Lebanese Maronite Militia's

Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camp massacres.

So, for Israel, and much of the West to brand any Palestinians' response to what they see as ongoing violent dispossession, as being terrorist in origin and methodology, is just a tad hypocritical.

Oh yes, and what's that shadow again, the one with the Giant A for atomic bomb, that really really big stick, will it be on the table too?

Truth and Reconciliation is the only way through the labyrinth, with of course a stop in the middle to slay the bloodthirsty, vengeful and misandric minotaur, the one who keeps being fed, amongst others, lots of innocent children, children like your neighbour's daughter, who had no say in what religious label they might have to wear nor any hand in creating the bloody mess in the first place.