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According to a series of Gallup polls, both Israelis and Palestinians hope for peace, and believe it can indeed be achieved through nonviolent means. Sometimes we like to think that our “enemy” is not human, not capable of peace. But statistics show a different story, dismissing assumptions and showing that Israelis and Palestinians really aren’t that different in their hearts after all.
A woman wears a bandanna to promote the Sulha Peace Project.
The Sulha Peace Project is a grassroots organisation started during the Al-Aqsa Intifada that brings together average Israelis and Palestinians in a peaceful environment and promotes dialogue between the two groups. Organisations like this are crucial to the viability of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence.
Their website is here. We are not affiliated with them in any way, but they sound like they’re worth checking out!
June 10th
1967 - Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. The Six-Day War is over.
During the time of the 5th Crusade, while his own countrymen were going to the Middle East for war, Francis of Assisi rather went with the message of peace and approached Sultan Malik al-Kamil of Egypt for a peaceful dialogue.
At the time many of Malik al-Kamil’s court were Coptic Christians, so he was educated on Christianity and accepted the Monk. The Sultan listened to his message, even allowing him also to preach the Gospel. Francis is recorded to have said “he had been sent beyond the sea by Almighty God to show him and his people the Path to their Salvation and to tell them of the Gospel whch is truth” (His Biographer recorded the conversation)
At the time the Muslims and Copts were defending their lands from the Crusaders in Egypt claiming the same Faith as this man and whose mission had been sent by the same Pope in Rome.
This shows how three groups: Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic can sit in a room peacefully whilst violence rages around them. Many say religion causes wars but when men who are pious but have strong religious convictions can listen in peace when those of the same claim kill it shows the ‘proof’ of this is not as clear many say.
By Mana Neyestani
And proud of it.
a couple of Israeli graphic designers, Ronnie Edri and Michal Tamir, started a online campaign to try to avoid a war between Iran and Israel.
it’s beautiful.
also, follow them on twitter — @IsraelLovesIran.
(via uncrafted)
(via uncrafted)
Amos Oz.mov (by jstreetdotorg)
“The opposite of compromise is not idealism and the opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.”
Amos Oz’ speech to J Street at the National Conference in DC. A supporter of the two state solution, he describes the situation as a tragic conflict between right and right and sometimes between wrong and wrong. It is time for a “fair and painful divorce,” he says, hoping for a peaceful compromise in a two state solution.
Amos Oz is a giant in Israeli literature. His works have been translated in forty one languages, including Arabic. To give a taste of his accomplishments, here is his awards and honors section from Wikipedia:
- In 1976, Oz was awarded the Brenner Prize.[4]
- In 1983, he was awarded the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category), for A Perfect Peace.[5]
- In 1984, he received the Officier des Arts et Lettres in France.[6]
- In 1986, he was a co-recipient (jointly with Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz) of the Bialik Prize for literature.[7]
- In 1988, he received the French Prix Femina Etranger.[6][8]
- In 1992, he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.[6][8]
- In 1997, President Jacques Chirac presented him with the Légion d’honneur.[6]
- In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.[9]
- In 2004, he was awarded the Ovid Prize from the city of Neptun, Romania[10]
- In 2005, he was awarded the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt, Germany for his life’s work,[11] a prize which was awarded in the past to the likes of Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann.
- In 2005, he received the JQ Wingate Prize (nonfiction) for A Tale of Love and Darkness
- In 2006, he received the Jerusalem-Agnon Prize.[6]
- In 2006, he received the Corine Prize (Germany).[6]
- In 2007, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (Spain).[6][12]
- In 2007, his book “A Tale of Love and Darkness” was nominated one of the ten most important books since the creation of the State of Israel.[6]
- In 2008, he received the German President’s High Honor Award.[6]
- In 2008, he was awarded the Primo Levi Prize (Italy).[6]
- In 2008, he received the Heinrich Heine Prize of Düsseldorf, Germany.[6][13]
- In 2008, he received an Honorary Degree from the University of Antwerp.
- In 2008, he also received Tel Aviv University’s Dan David Prize (“Past Category”), jointly with Atom Egoyan and Tom Stoppard, for “Creative Rendering of the Past”.[14]
- In 2010, he received the honorary fellowship from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Oz has been considered in recent years as a serious candidate to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[15]
In 2005, he was voted the 41st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[16]
Iranians We Love You, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Loves Iran campaign has made it onto billboards!
an Israeli couple named Ronnie Edri and Michal Tamir, decided to cut across the growing anxiety and fear over the possibility of an Israel-Iran war, and address Iranian citizens directly. They created a slogan ” Iranians We Love You”
Iranians Quickly responded back with messages of Peace to Israel
The Couples Website : http://israelovesiran.telavivnet.com/
