Letting Go of Ancestral Wrongs

I'm not entirely coherent right now for lack of sleep, so bear with me. I'm not certain as how to express this thought in words.
     In 1948, the modern State of Israel came into being, and with it the displacement of Palestinians and the launch of the Israeli settlements, more or less. It is now 2024, The settlers have been there for generations, taken root, and built homes and families. The same is true on the opposite side of the spectrum. Yes, at one time, this land was the home of the ancient Kingdom of Judea (Israel/Judah), and the ancestral land of the Jews. But in that time period, not only Jews, but Arabs, Syrian Christians, and European Christians also settled there and blended in some part to become the Palestinians. They too took root in that land, and built homes and families that have been there for generations. Even if they are only the descendants of Arab workers, they've still done the same thing, making their homes there for generations.
     In North America, slaves were brought over from Africa and forced to work on plantations. It was a horrible violation and crime against those people, as was the breeding of them like livestock. Hundreds of years from when it started, their descendants have also built homes and families, many of them are of "mixed race" with their ancestors' slave owners, and virtually none have ties with their ancestral African communities.
     I have previously written about the original state of human beings, and the impossibility of return to that state both biologically and in terms of society. It would be catastrophic and would cause the deaths of millions if not billions were we to try.
     There is, in our nature, the desire for reparations for ancestral wrongs. The desire to avenge the wrongs done to our ancestors, and make things "right." We feel guilty for what our ancestors did, or enraged for what someone else did to our ancestors. We see this on both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. We see it in the movements for reparations, and even the misguided attempts at repatriation for the descendants of former American slaves. We also see it in the same attempts on behalf of the various native American tribes who were badly mistreated by the U.S. government. What Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine and with the former Soviet Republics can even be seen as, in his mind, trying to avenge and "make things right" for the beloved country of his birth, the U.S.S.R.
     The problem however is that, like with what happened with the human race and Eden, there is no going back. There is no "making things right." Any attempts at doing so in the name of long dead people who were wronged only hurts the people who are living who had nothing to do with the original violation. Another example might be persecuting the Jewish people living today for what the Judean religious leadership did to Jesus 2,000 years ago when those living today had nothing to do with it. Yet another would be both Muslim anger toward European (and by way of ancestry, American) Christians for the Crusades, and European Christian anger towards Muslims for their historic conquests.
     Love, as the Scriptures teach it, lets go. It keeps no account of wrongs. It does not live in the past. It does not seek vengeance. It exists in the here and now, and deals with what is, and not what was. Love doesn't see the wars that were fought hundreds of years ago, or the atrocities committed by those people. It only sees the child, the family, the mother, the father, the siblings, that is, it only sees the people who are here, now, today as its direct objects. Love does not care what a Palestinian family's great grandparents did eighty years ago. Love does not care what an Israeli settler's great grandparents did eighty years ago. Love does not care what slaveowners did 200 years ago. Neither does love care what Muslims did in the past, or Europeans, or Americans, or Black people, or Hispanic people. Love holds nothing against the modern Japanese for what their grandparents did during WWII. Love keeps no record of wrongs done, and does not punish the children for the offenses of the parents. If we go far enough back, everyone on this Earth is a descendant of someone who committed some heinous atrocity against another person or group of people. Love does not hold that against them.
     This is a hard subject to write about without it not coming off wrong. But as disciples of Jesus Christ, we must practice the letting go of what was, no matter how egregious, and love the person and people that are, right here, and right now, in this moment. We must respect the right of the Palestinian to live at peace in his own home without fear for his life, and the same is true of the Israeli settler, We must allow people to move on with their lives, and not tie the sins of their ancestors to them like chains. We must love the person in front of us as he is right now. Not as his ancestor was.