From today’s Ha’aretz:
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a secret deal with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman for highly contentious construction on West Bank land known as E1, Army Radio reported Wednesday.
While this might not seem like major news to some, this report, if true, would be devastating to the peace process (such as it [...]
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E1: End of the Two State Solution?
Posted in Israel, Palestine, Peace, Poetry on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Israel and Gaza: A View from Rumi
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Nonviolence, Palestine, Peace, Poetry, Politics, Politics/Middle East, Religion, War on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s the most beautiful response to this huge ugly mess I’ve yet to encounter: images of tragedy in Gaza and Sderot set against a poem by the great Persian poet Rumi.
Here’s the text:
Move beyond any attachment to
names.
Every war and every conflict between
human beings
has happened because of some
disagreement about names.
It’s such an [...]
Pickup at Hafez’s Tomb
Posted in Interfaith, Iran, Iran Trip 2008, Nonviolence, Peace, Poetry, Politics, Religion on December 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We’ve spent the last two days in Shiraz – and among other things our experience in this beautiful city gave us a still deeper into to Persia’s soul.
We’ve been told that while Esfahan is generally considered to represent Iran’s historical spirit, Shiraz reflects Iran’s cultural spirit. Indeed, while Iran is an Islamic Republic, Islam is not the [...]
Poetry of Genocide
Posted in Africa, Anti-Semitism, Darfur, Global Activism, Holocaust, Judaism, Poetry, Religion, Religion/Politics on April 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In honor of Yom Hashoah (”Holocaust Remembrance Day”), here are two poems by survivors of genocide: one by the great Jewish/Italian writer Primo Levi (who died twenty years ago this month) and the other by Emtithal Mahmoud, a 13-year-old Darfur native who now lives in Philadelphia.
Please participate in the upcoming Global Days For Darfur – [...]
Stones and Dreams
Posted in Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Peace, Poetry, Religion, Torah Commentary on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Vayetzei:
Jacob left Be’ersheva and set out for Haran. He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he placed it under his head and lay down in that place. He had a dream… [...]
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