Imagining Peace: The Practical Advantages of an Israeli/Palestinian Final...
Recent sputterings of a peace process between Israel and Palestine, the termination of Israel’s settlement building freeze causing a demise of said peace process — again — has...
View ArticleUnite, Confuse, and Inspire: Creating a More Inclusive Atmosphere in Israel
Reflecting on 2010, it’s clear that racism in Israel has reared its ugly head. A recent poll published by the Israel Democracy Institute found that only 51 percent of Israelis...
View ArticleThoughts On War This Week
“We Shall Overcome Because the Arc of the Moral Universe is Long; But It Bends tward Justice.” -Martin Luther King Jr. COLOR Black and white are the colors of war, and the rest are...
View ArticleReflections on Disunion and Union
It is hard to over estimate who is bleeding more in all the people that you meet. The walking wounded are everywhere. Like zombies. That puts conflict management and mitigation in a whole different...
View ArticleNote from the War Front to Fellow Jews
The relationships between loving Jews and Arabs, even in Gaza right this moment, is plainly evident. I get reports every day. But it is hard to imagine for those who carry suspicion...
View ArticleEssential to Peacebuilding
Essential to Peacebuilding is learning to accept blows, bad ones. How can we expect Israelis or Syrians or Iraqis not to become killers after suicide bombs on their streets or Palestinians not to...
View ArticleSins of the Nonviolent
Warriors carry the sins of violence, of killing the innocent, intentionally and by negligence. But the nonviolent carry sins too, because war is a collective crime and must be...
View ArticleReflection on Yazidis
Yazidi Family (Aquila-Style) I am starting to understand the human sacrifice of this people to the so-called Islamic State. They are loved by no one because they are not Muslim,...
View ArticleShades of Heaven / Birth
SHADES OF HEAVEN When a theologian of another religion says what you were thinking the moment before it comes out of your mouth #syria, with the Bosnian hero Father Ivo. BIRTH The warrior is born at...
View ArticleReflections in August 2014 vol.1
In war in an age of war the act of ultimate defiance is to make another human being feel wonderful. Testosterone, gestures of kindness are semen seeds. Men get busy, it will make...
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