This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanthan.

Nearly a year ago, we ran an episode about one of the world's most intractable divides,

the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Since that story aired, a solution to the conflict seems ever more out of reach.

Israelis and Palestinians are closely following the case of an Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in the death of a Palestinian.

He did back off from the idea of a two-state solution,

a Palestinian-drow-a-truck into a crowd of Israeli soldiers, according to Israeli police.

At least four people are dead and 15 in the same time.

This episode offers a perspective we don't often hear and news about the conflict.

Compassion for the other side.

I think that the two big elements that are lacking from the discourse on both sides

is one massive lack of hope and two this unbelievable lack of empathy.

This kind of empathy for your enemy is difficult and dangerous.

What was most hurtful for me, most painful, was nobody stood by me.

But this empathy can also be something else, powerful.

It can accomplish remarkable things, it can change minds and bring down walls.

And I'm staring at this wall of the window of the bus at the Kalandia checkpoint.

And six million ghosts chase me as we drive through.

And I wonder if they will ever rest.

So my name is Avaner Gvaryahu, I'm 31 actually today.

Growing up Avaner Gvaryahu was a model Israeli patriot.

I grew up in a religious family, what we call religious nationalist family.

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