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August 31 2002 From Len and Libby Traubman: In July, 1992 a handful of American Palestinians, Jews, and supportive "others" first gathered in a San Mateo, Calif. living room to see if we could do the "impossible" -- listen with compassion to one another, and find common ground and a way of relating over time that had escaped most previous endeavors in North America and the Middle East. This July, 2002, the San Mateo Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group -- 30 women and men, Holocaust survivors and 20th generation Palestinians; in our 30s and 80s -- gathered for our 123rd meeting. We listened in silence as a long list of our outreach endeavors were read one at a time, reliving our ten years of dedication to one another and to the "public peace process." To help us mark this moment in time, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel C. Kurtzer, woke up early -- 6:30 a.m. Tel-Aviv time -- for a half-hour teleconference with us gathered in the living room of Palestinians Nahida and Adham Salem. Photos are on the Web The conversation affirmed the needed, parallel partnership between government and public peace processes. It reminded us what the Ambassador had written to us and Dialogue participants everywhere: "The 'public peace process' that you engage in is a model for understanding and reconciliation, and provides the foundation for a long-term, lasting peace." Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo County E-mail || Web August 30 2002 Some thoughts on terrorism and counter-terrorism by Robert Rosenberg. 9-11 may or may not have been a one-time event, not only in terms of the scale of the destruction but in terms of the audacity of the plotters. That is the nature of terrorism, whether conducted in the name of the cause of freedom, religion, or pure nihilism,it is about using minimal means to strike at the weakest point of a much more conventionally powerful foe -- and is always unpredictable. Arthur Waskow on the Israeli government campaign against Gush Shalom August 30 2002 International Day of Peace Vigil announcement Added Kav Yarok: THE GREEN LINE - STUDENTS DRAW THE LINE to the Human Rights and Peace Groups section Auugust 23 2002 Blogs, as most people by now know, are online diaries sort of like Ariga's home page (this one), with dated entries about things on the net (or in their flesh and blood existence) the people who keep the blogs think are interesting, or meaningful or maybe dumb or funny. There was no word "blog" when I started Ariga in the diary format, handweaving the whole thing. Nowadays, there are application servers with online software to create blogs available at places like blogspot.com or weblogs.com, which do automatically a lot of what I do by hand. All this is way of mentioning two bogs that have come to my attention recently. One is Carla Passino's International Sentinel, which is Carla's musings on various international news stories and what she finds in the international press through the Web. Carla's a journalist who seems to specialize in the stuff that really matters -- good food, travel, in order words, the things people should be spending their time on, rather than quarreling. Maybe because of that rather clear outlook on what lie can be about, she has a pretty good take on international stories, including the sad one unfolding daily in the Middle East, which is one of the subjects at Ariga (there are others, just click on Pleasure to find out what they are. Another blog that I came across and was impressed by is Judah Ariel's Stage Left. Given the current jingoistic fantasies of the American Jewish right wing, which more Catholic than the pope is even loonier than the Israeli right, it's refreshing to read a web site by an American Jew who is unabashedly Zionist (as I am, by the way for all those who accuse me from Brooklyn of being an an anti-Semite) and unabashedly in the peace camp, which by American standards means on the "left". It's actually been a long time since I thought of myself as a leftist. I think of myself as a pragmatist who believes that talk, talk, talk simply makes more sense than shoot, shoot, shoot -- and not only for moralistic reasons. In any case, Judah's blog is a pretty good place to start to catch what's on the mind of the American Jewish left, which is not as oxymoronic as it sometimes sounds in these days of Bush beating around Sharon. There are, of course "right wing" -- usually meaning Jewish supremacist -- blogs. You'll pardon me if I don't recommend them. And by the way, there's a new poem by Moshe Benarroch, called Change at Ariga. August 22, 2002 Ami Isserof of PeaceWatch proposes a public campaign against the settlements in the latest issue of PeaceWatch. August 20 2002 New poetry and a short story at Ariga:
An appeal for help: Please ignore all political references in the following text and look at the humanitarian side. All people deserve medical treatment. No one should have to suffer from diseases which can be stopped or cured, due to politics. People are people. Children are Children. Please get involved and help stop an outbreak of a horrible disease. August 13 2002 Middle East Peace -- the George C. Marshall Way by Shlomo Maital. In an article I wrote in response to President George W. Bush's speech of June 24, I argued that Bush's speech was lacking a stick. Maital argues that missing from the Bush speech was a carrot -- a Marshall type plan that would predicate the money on progress toward peace. To the full article The latest issue of BitterLemons.org is out with "Democracy, terrorism and settlements" - by Yossi Alpher: Would a genuine Palestinian democracy indeed deliver on terrorism where Arafat has disappointed? "The 'trouble' with democracy" - by Ghassan Khatib: Allowing for real democracy and democratization to emerge in Israel and Palestine can only increase the chances for peace. "Apartheid = separation?!" - by Alon Liel: The construction of the fence should be seen in the world as separation to prevent apartheid. and "Democracy is an enlightened choice for peace" - by Mudar Kassis: If the political leadership works only on the pulse of the street, it, too, becomes blind. Aug 11 2002 Gila Svirsky on a peace march from Jerusalem to Bethlehem that was broken up by the police, making one wonder as Gila asks, Did the Israeli government think that the sight of mounted men whipping demonstrators is good for the image of Israel? Doesn't the Israeli government want to encourage peace sentiment among Palestinians? Did the Israeli government think it was bad to show Palestinians that there are Israelis who want peace? Is the Israeli government afraid to show the world that there are Palestinians for peace? August 10 2002 Two stories about life on the Israeli side nowadays came into Ariga recently. One is a true story, written as a letter to friends, and appropriately called Dear friends, a true story. It's by Marty Friedlander, a colleague of mine at the Ha'aretz-IHT editorial department and is a first-hand acount of being present at a bombing in Jerusalem -- but it's not about politics and horror, it's about humanity and the odd poetry of life in that sad city. The other is a short story by a young Israeli writer in English, Moran Ariel Matyash, about a young woman' aspirations. She calls it Dedicated to: Hope. August 1 2002 Peace Education Continues - Despite the Violence by Gershon Baskin of IPCRI. and Indict the Murderers of Oslo!! by Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom July 2002
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