Ariga: December 1998

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December 1998

Dec 31 1998 How Kids can use Computers for Peace By Andrew Friedman. The Israel Committee Against House Demolitions reports on new Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian homes and what you can do to help protest against this cruel and unusual punishment. Scenarios and solutions for May 4 1998 an article from the Israel Palestine Center for research and Information. BLOOD IN LEBANON, MONEY ON THE GOLAN Blood, much blood, is spilled in Lebanon. Everybody knows: this blood can be saved, if we make peace with Syria... Gush Shalom ad for this week.

Dec 29 1998 "Peace Loving People" plan Israel to Jordan Peace Parade in January, using eco-friendly transport (bicycles, horses, feet, etc.) Find out how you can join in

B'Tselem on how the law can be used to do illegal things

A reminder of the dangers we face: Unconventional Weapons of War

Seasons Gifts from Ariga:

A little light from the Holy Land this Hannuka/Christmas/Ramadan -- Short reports from real peace activities, including a Rapprochment-led Israeli Palestinian peace march in Bethlehem, Xmas day; a Peace College for 30 Israeli and Palestinians, and the Hope Flowers School, a pioneering peace-oriented school in Bethlehem.

New poetry
Elazar owns White Raven, a great bookstore on Rehov Yonah Hanavi (Jonah the Prophet St.) in Tel Aviv. His poems are both tres 1950s and very up to date. Nathalie Stephens prose poems are seering and suggestive, sorrowful and sensual. Perhaps it is because she is French and Jewish and Canadian. And Janet I. Buck is back at Ariga with new poems about age, death and love. PLUS: Payback, Elisha Porat's monthly short story at Ariga.

Dec 18 1998 A reminder that at http://www.sam.win-uk.net/ you'll find one of the pioneers of the Middle East Peace sites: The Arab Electronic Mail Journal, Edited By Samir Suwellam.

More Recommended Links

http://www.redshift.com/~wsandtt/). This site proposes, as a new millennium's resolution, the adoption of a simple world pledge promoting social and environmental justice: "I recognize a vital unity linking me with all humanity and humanity with all life, acknowledging that where none prevails over another, each may prosper and all may continue."

Batshalom - http://www.batshalom.org

Jerusalem Center for Women - http://www.j-c-w.org

The Adam Institute - http://www.adaminstitute.org.il

Friedrich Ebert Foundation - http://www.fes.org.il

The Human Rights Watch World Report 1999, covering events of 1998, is now available in English on Human Rights Watch's website: http://www.hrw.org. The Middle East and North Africa section of the report includes detailed chapters on Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, Israel, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority Territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia.

Dec 4 1998

With financial help from the Norwegian government, Galillee College, Tivon and the Middle East Institution for Development, announce a special seminar in Galilee and Bethlehem to train Israeli and Palestinian community leaders to create dialog groups. Here's more about the seminar

Tikvanet announces a call for suggestions for next year's Seder for all Abraham's Children

New Poetry at Ariga: Karen Alkalay-Gut writes while Liz Magnes plays Gershwin -- a personal as well as political poem. Ward Kelley sends in some more of his biography poems and Orit Perlman, jewelry designer and mezzo soprano, also writes abut motherhood, love, friendship and more. Richard Bear's remarkable poems about natrue and poetry, love and schoalrship; Alex Gavrilovich on Rabbi Abraham Heschel; and David Reiter on fatherhood and God PlUS: Elisha Porat's Story of the Month -- The Bearded Man

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Coming to terms with Deir Yassin by Ami Isserof of PeaceWatch; an extraordinary report on the massacre, the revisionists, the mythologists and the reality. "If we are ever to make peace then each side must first point the finger of blame at itself, come to terms with its own conscience, and apologize for the lost lives, the lost loved ones, the dread and the sorrow we have inflicted on the other."

Give Peace a Chance -- The Wye Memorandum including:

The Full Text

The accompanying U.S. letters to Israel

A commentary from Human Rights Watch

The Short Version, a tragic satire by Nigel Parry

Strafor's Global Intelligence Update on the CIA's involvement

Oslo Agreement

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you were capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. -- Thomas Merton (1915-1968), ``Seeds of Contemplation''

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