Peace, Israel and Palestine

"Survival" mode.

Were these shoes belonging to a Jewish refugee or to a Palestinian refugee? A huge problem in the Middle East is that people operate in "SURVIVAL MODE". And when that mode is "on" you can even turn against your own people. That is a horrid lesson we learn from history. Jewish turned against Arabs, Arabs turned against Jewish and also turned against Arabs... as much as Jewish tunred against Jewish during times of massacres. Don't underestimate the power of "SURVIVAL MODE". Because even though life can be full of heroism... it is also full of plain instinct... When you look back, remember this. But there is also a moment when you are "more safe". Those are the times of repairing... If violence put people back into "survival mode", repairing will be delayed. People need to feel safe in order to be able to move forward. Understand this! on both sides...!

"Maps" are we surveying...

Trying to find a ground for us does not have to do so much with landsurveying and cartography, but with a mapping of the kind of relation we want us to have.

The "Israeli Arabs"

Almost non public information exists referring to the Palestinian Arabs that were made Israeli citizens in 1948. A paradoxical situation under a military administration, that made them simultaneously "citizens of a liberal nation-state and subjects of colonial administration" in Shira Robinson's words. Those that would hold and Israeli passport automatically became "persona non grata" in the rest of the Arab countries, where most of the families of the Arab-Israeli flew.

Tenths of thousands of Arabs refugees attempted to re enter the country and were redefined as "infiltrators". Thousands were killed by the Israeli army. Others succeeded in crossing the border. The State demanded that its Arab citizens turned these "newcomers". Facing this dilema some acceded to this demand, others, helped to hide them. In the middle were many others; those that helped their own family, those that exploited the situation asking for profit, those that had close ties with the authorities and used their connections to help the refugees back. This was the law passed in 1954 to prevent Arab population to return, issued under the government of Moshe Sharet. Today, a name of a street in Tel Aviv...

The reminding Arab population in the villages were mostly displaced to other villages, a huge amount of homes were expropriated under a clause of "Present Absentee". Meaning, the person was in the territory of Israel but could not access to his village. He could pass his house by but not go to his house. These emptied properties became the home of Jewish refugees coming from Arab countries such as Yemen or European countries. 

Prawer Plan

Hey "Mr Prawer"...! Lets play you were the Bedouin and I came and bashed your home down? Took your camels to the zoo, and kubbehd up your goats? Eh...? You dont like the game? WE NEITHER! >:(

Find out about the Prawer Plan

About the ideas and not the people.

It is not about the people. It is about the "ideas" of the people. 

When you get really angry and you say: "I want to push them into the sea"- I heard this expressions on both sides-, you are not really talking about that little boy or girl Palestinian/Israeli but about ideas. And this is how I know this: 

Many Palestinian and Israelis have dear friends on the "other side". So it is not about "Palestinian" and is not about "Israelis". It is about the idea of "Zionism" it is about "Terrorism/Demonization of the other/Brainwashing" etc. But even within the "Zionists", there are violent criminals and wonderful pacifists-Palestinian-lovers that dream of One State Solution. So where is "the enemy"? It is in the ideas. So how about we fight together to "push" these ideas "into the sea" and keep the people?

ليس المقصود الناس, انما المقصود افكار الناس

عندما تقول وانت في قمة الغضب ( سوف ارميهم في البحر ) - سمعت هذه العبارة من كلا الطرفين - لم تكن تقصد ذلك الطفل الاسرائيلي / الفلسطيني, وانما تقصد الافكار, هذا ما انا افكر واعرف. 

العديد من الفلسطينين والاسرائيلين لديهم اصدقاء مقربين من الطرف الآخر. لذلك لي المقصود الاسرائيلي/الفلسطيني انما الافكار " الصهيونية, الارهاب, الشهداء,غسيل الدماغ.................. وغيرها, وحتى داخل الصهيونية هناك عنف وجرائم, ودعاة السلام الفلسطيني, وحبي حل الدولة الواحدة, 

فاين هو العدو اذن؟. 

انها في الافكار 

كيف نقاتل معا معا من اجل رمي هذه الافكار في البحر, ونبقي على الناس؟ 

Bedouins

Bring the poets and the philosophers into your governments! Save me oh L~rd from all these bureaucrats!  All these golden-tennis-shoes-kitsch-cheap-culture of frechot! 

Bring me back my bedouins and my poppies, the crystal pure waters of secret fountains! The clean night, without "intimate deodorants"! Bring me back the goats and the stallions! 

A man in the desert has the dignity of his desert. But you don't understand this. Your vulgar "culture" means nothing to me! It makes me sick. You think that you're so superior because you come from the city, you dwell amongst cables, like spiders on webs... but you know nothing about sipping the dew from the fresh air in the early mornings. You manipulate us, as if we were objects to be added to your pouches... "They are Jewish" you say, "they are Muslims" you say... But we... We are men! Men that saw the rising of your gods in a land you dispute like vultures!

Let me clean out of your greeds and your shuks! Let me have my bread, that I make with my own hands, let me have my coffee in peace! And please, go away. Everybody!! Get out of my land!! Go and do your crossed explosions somewhere else! You don't let me hear my stars...

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Radio Forecast for Peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English

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Down with the mythology of ideas behind suicide bombers

.Robert Anthony Pape, Jr. (born 1960) is an American political scientist known for his work on international security affairs, especially the coercive strategies of air power and the rationale of suicide terrorism. He is currently a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and founder of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST). In early October 2010, the University of Chicago press released Pape's third book, co-authored with James K. Feldman, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It. While popular in the mass media, Pape's findings on suicide terrorism have routinely been challenged by scholars who have identified potential methodological flaws with his conclusions. 

In spite of the general believe that suicide bombing attacks are motivated by Islamic believes, Robert A. Pape, that studied over 50.000 events taken from 35 different countries, states as the result of his deep research that, out of the 462 cases presented, 50% were secular. That 95 % of suicide attacks have not religion in common, but a strategic objective to draw people away from a territory that they consider their homeland or is prized greatly. They are directed onto democratic societies which are perceive as of weak.
They are "walk in" volanteers and not as it was thought full time students of madrasas that had been brainwashed. They have a strong support of the local community. This video is kind of "longish" but worths every minute of it!

Gaza-Sderot

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Thanks, Danny.