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Rachel DuBois is peacemaker #613 on mepeace.org. Mar 25

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Hometown:: Elkmont, Alabama

Relationship Status:: Married

My personal story:: I grew up in a super conservative community, which fortunately led me to seek out experiences that would broaden my local, national, and international understandings of current events.
In 2000, while studying at Boston University, I traveled to Beer-Sheva Israel to study archaeology and anthropology. The experience was truly eye-opening and ever since I have remained tuned into events related to the Israel Palestine conflict and the greater Middle East.
I was fortunate to have returned to the Middle East in 2005 to study Arabic in Lebanon. Again, this experience only further developed my understanding of how political decisions in the West, primarily the USA, affect people on the ground in southern Lebanon and in the various refugee camps.
Eventually, I hope to work in the Middle East with an agency dedicated to developing conflict mitigation skills in youth.

Why I want peace:: Understanding how political decisions have impacted people's daily lives - especially in the Middle East context - inspires me to work with a multitude of people, both those who agree with my thinking and those who do not, to seek solutions that are sustainable and satisfactory to all parties.

Birthday:: 12/26/1978

Interests and activities:: Traveling of course - but less expensive choices include hiking, reading, and drinking wine when we can find it here in Banda Aceh.

Something you didn't know about me:: I sneeze in 3s.

How I found mepeace.org:: friend

What I want to achieve here:: I want to develop connections with like-minded people.

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At 3:48pm on May 30th, 2008, Rob Schrama said…: The ‘Big Hug’ and the future of Jerusalem

The sting of all problems between Israeli and Palestinians lays in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon.

On June 24, the ‘Big Hug’ will be hold in Jerusalem. Light workers from Israel, Palestine and from all over the world, ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’, will come together to bring warmth and energy to this city, embracing holding hands the Old City. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.

We are organizing the Big Hug to make the people aware –especially the Israeli and Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem- that there is a very shaped perspective for the city of Jerusalem as a city of peace: a new, undivided Jerusalem, as the capital of Palestine, Israel and at large.

Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart”, as an independent city, will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse.

The Old City of Jerusalem must become an open city; a House of Prayer for all the Peoples. This perspective is written down in the Holy Books, this is the perspective we, as ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’ embrace as well as solution. But how many people does already notice this hopeful point of view?

What I saw in Jerusalem and also everywhere else where I meet Islamic and Jewish people is, that not so many persons really think about a future for Jerusalem. Most of the time, they stick with old ideas that the Old City of Jerusalem will always remain a part of Israel, or in opposite, that it will be absolutely a part of a new Palestinian state, as stolen land that has to be given back. With these visions, a future Jerusalem will be a divided city with an East Palestinian and West Israeli part, with barbed wire and checkpoints in between, like the situation of the city from 1948-1967. Or, coming closer to an agreement, people suggest -like proposed in the “Geneva Accord” in 2003- to make a complicated dividing of the Old City in a Israeli and Palestinian part. That will mean that the small alleys will be split by walls and barriers too. The idea that a future Jerusalem will become a divided city, is something that we have to prevent.

There are living about 250.000 Palestinian and 500.000 Israeli rather close together in one city. Do they want to make a separation of Jerusalem in parts or do they choose, deep in their hearts, for unity? So my best friends, it is our task to inform the whole city that there is an alternative for the Jerusalem of today.

All lovers of a united Jerusalem will come together to encircle and embrace the Old City of Jerusalem with love and devotion. We have to encourage all inhabitants of Jerusalem to join the coming Big Hug, with the idea of a New Jerusalem that might be realized with their support.

Rob Schrama Phone:0031-646608660 www.loversofjerusalem.org

At 11:27pm on May 9th, 2008, Mo'min said…: Rachel
nice to see you there
wish you all the best
thanks
Mo'min

At 6:13pm on March 25th, 2008, Todd Goodman said…: Hey RaY RaY,

Hope you kids are still having fun and enjoying Jerry's folks if they are still around. I thought that was quite a funny story to hear that you ran into some DU folks at a random bar on the other side of the planet. What a small world.

Hope to talk to you guys again soon.

Peace,

Todd

At 7:46am on March 25th, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: Rachel, please add your photo so we will see you.

At 7:45am on March 25th, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: Welcome Rachel. Thank you for joining and sharing yourself with us. You will develop new connections here. Use our Features. If you have a question on the site, see our FAQ. Please share your Feedback, and invite your friends to join us on mepeace.org.