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Hometown:: Dallas, Texas

Relationship Status:: Single

My personal story:: Shalom and Salam,
I've visited the Middle East three times before and have always felt a strong connection to all of its people, culture, and beauty. I've been helped immensely by strangers on both sides whose acts of kindness have left me with a better awareness of life, love, and happiness.

Why I want peace:: :)

Interests and activities:: listening to music, writing, drawing, snowboarding, soccer,horseback riding

Something you didn't know about me:: I love languages

How I found mepeace.org:: I'm a member of one-voice-movement

What I want to achieve here:: Just be a part of a unified process for peace in the Middle East. Learn more about the process and interact with others who are concerned with events happening right now.

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At 7:03pm on May 30, 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 12:59am on March 14, 2008, Ali Caksu said…: Shalom Stephie
You are welcome. But you haven't added me yet :)
Keep in touch
Ali

At 12:47pm on January 27, 2008, Sanam said…: Aleikum Salam Stephie :)
thank you very much for your comment and sorry for answering late,
the crisis in Gaza is really make me worried and I'm trying every way to informate people about it, thank you very much for reading my blog :)

Allahaismarladik

At 11:14pm on January 22, 2008, Saeed Az. said…: Hi Stephie,

Thank you very much for your letter. I hope that we could be good friends.
Please visit our web site: www.baehd.org
Thank you

Saeed

At 2:26am on January 21, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: I enjoy your music.

At 2:26am on January 21, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: Hi Stephie, boy... you plan ahead. I don't know of conferences in the fall, but make your plans to be here and we will keep you busy!

At 12:12am on January 14, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: Hi Stephie, to answer your query - when you signed in, click on the envelope on the top left corner of the page. That will open your message center. You will see my letter there :-) Enjoyed our correspondence.

At 11:13pm on January 12, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: Hi Stephie, I wrote you a letter in the message center.

At 8:16pm on December 27, 2007, Eyal Raviv said…: Hi Stephanie,
I am so happy you found us. I was in Texas last month, my mother lives in Austin. Here you can find interaction, information and inspiration for peace. See our Features. If you have a question on the site, see our FAQ. And I welcome your Feedback.