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- Hometown:
- Rhode Island
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- My personal story:
- I'm the only Jewish Teen in my county and love to travel to Israel to see my friends and family
- Why I want peace:
- It hurts to see how many people have either lost their lives, loved ones, or someone dear to them
- Birthday:
- May 21st
- Interests and activities:
- Tae Kwon Do, Krav Maga,systema,escrema, other martial arts, Volleyball, and reading
- Something you didn't know about me:
- I dont like the USA and want to move to Israel as soon as I graduate
- How I found mepeace.org:
- through a newspaper article
- What I want to achieve here:
- I want to help show my Israeli friends how to be tolerant of other people. I also want to meet people and listen to their stories because every person matters
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it will be nice to be one of your friends here too
both of us are waitting to graduate badly :-) i realy can't wait
i'll finish my school after 1 year, ohhhhhh i can't wait
peace
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
I was talking about tolerance,
from your comment at the bottom of the page;
and criticisms of Israel vis a vis criticisms of the reasonably foreseeable alternatives.
ApparentIy like you, we agree that teaching and understanding the concept of tolerance is vitally important.
Whoever wants to throw out the old better have something better to replace it. And as much as I can criticize the Israel govt., and even society, right now,
but think of the criticisms you'd not be allowed to even express in any one of the alternatives (Arabia, Sudan, Syria..).
Honestly now, what good reason does anyone have to think that a Palestinian govt. (under the current leaders) would be any better?
So, if you know Israel that well, you know how diverse it is. That requires a significant degree of tolerance to achieve, right?
I've seen some Israelis being very rude and bigoted towards the Ethiopian Jews, but I've seen many more who help them as much as possible.
I've watched in amazement (and some pride) as a stream of seemingly random Israelis drove up to shelters in Tel Aviv to drop off clothes and food for refugees from Darfur.
Israel is very diverse indeed, full of jerks as well as heroes.
Like a tolerant democracy should be.
G'night from Oregon,
Yigal
You hit the nail on the head.
Still immature.
Maybe next time you're there, expand your horizons.
Go meet some Ethiopian Jews. Or some of the Bedouin community in Daliyat Carmel.
I suppose it's too much to ask of you to stop hanging out with guys who sound to me like- pardon the French - real losers. Maybe it's your job to explain them how wrong they are to be such bigots, especially as Jews who ought to know better?
But at least don't let your impression of Israelis be based on them!
Hang in there, you're a smart woman and you'll do great.
Yigal
Nice to see you here.
I hope to be able to prove to you that the Israeli people,
in general, know more than you seem to think about being tolerant of other people.
When there's time.
All the best,
Yigal
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