JPLO – Israeli peace movement finally calls for ceasefire. �
� From: Maytal Kowalski, JSpaceCanada <[email protected]> � The peace camp is rising - and we're with them � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � <https://assets.nationbuilder.com/jspace/mailings/54/attachments/original/JSpaceCanada_Logo_NEW_HighRes_FINAL.png?1685727255> <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/donate?e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=1> DONATE NOW � � Hi �Dr abrahim, How has your long weekend been? I hope you've had a chance to relax and enjoy some sunshine. I spent the first part of my holiday Monday <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=RUMz-Ppmorwp4pd2POvrySuWxBIsQIUHZ4byH4GMIsALmH8A2m-pnd2coOKlDkst&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=2> watching the live stream of today's Israeli peace rally, "It's Time." In an auditorium that holds 10,000 people, <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=TWZiWsC-VYuTkMQc0jVnTl9p25-S40LkI5s-ThA64rI8WBQGOcCkz2IKp5Dx2SbByTGR8_vWJmcalGPJdwAMvw&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=3> filled to the brim, tens of thousands of Israelis, Palestinians, and allies gathered to say it's time. � To stop the war. To secure a ceasefire and hostage release deal. To end the occupation. To return to peace negotiations. I loved when Yuval Noah Harari said "true, we have tried to make peace in the past, and we weren't that good at it. So what? We also aren't that great at making war, and yet it hasn't prevented us from doing another one, and another one." The event ended with the song "A Song for Peace" written by Yaakov “Yankele” Rotblit. You may be like me - this song may stir up heavy and complex feelings. I remember watching Yitzhak Rabin z"l sing it almost 30 years ago at a peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords. At a time when peace seemed so close, when a political leader had rallied us all to support a peace agreement, and when it felt like it was finally going to happen. It was only a short time after getting off the stage that Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish right-wing extremist. In many ways, I was transported back to that horrible day, and with it, I was reminded of the trauma that so many Israelis carry with them to this day. � "don't get too hopeful." I told myself, remembering the last time this song was sung and was meant to signify a new, better future. But then I realized that this trauma doesn't have to define me. It doesn't have to define any of us, we don't have to live in the most horrible moments of our past, we can work together to create a more hopeful future. And indeed, on that stage today was a different future than the future that stood on the stage all those years ago. Today, the song was sung not by a small circle of political elites, but by everyday civilians. Jews, Arabs, Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian. In Hebrew and in Arabic, they did more than just sing for peace. They told everyone in that auditorium, and everyone watching from home, that they are the future. This is exactly what we do at JSpaceCanada as well. At a time when our establishment leaders can't speak of a two-state solution <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=h5HkO5ojSXicuxmBCIbKcItGUjZT6-W3T_y96y5tE7bszfMRDH9cJVIPR5MZ4kdGxywLgP_lGvPG7sv6GtEVanZhLIFqtI7OOjH2-K1vBl8&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=4> unless it's followed with a "but", when there is no talk of peace, or an end to this war, we are bravely leading. Whether it's working with our political leaders to <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/statement_jspacecanada_welcomes_additional_canadian_sanctions_settlers_and_entities?e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=5> encourage further sanctions on settlers and entities in the occupied West Bank who endanger Palestinian civilians and harm the viability of a two-state solution, or successfully getting them to <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=jO6SPZrID6l1Wy1JDUsBsjvqqHBCnh-Mp8WSWCApHhmSws_jc0OLR1qkab2U2U6cuN2kPrnvJS-nlDTyGxTV4Q&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=6> publicly support Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding on the world's largest stages, we are the ones pushing for peace. � It's why we gathered, along with other Canadian peace groups, in <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=OcWDofweor2cm4Z5idZz4_lYJBqnQRL-qaoH9CGNwjUQ0yHi4ZHK0DXJ1KxcOXAJik_ozTOJHNWg4bWpV735_w&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=7> Toronto and <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=89SEzo6-QL21Y6qFPKJaSRnOqyy5wsSUqDL_Z8BMgjiVriA91wLLNEj76Js6fL_BdqOv4vpumAkQgOoZ9njAKw&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=8> Vancouver to say that the war must end, and only peace will bring security. >From Israel to Palestine to Canada, there are enough of us who believe in >peace to make a change. More people gathered in Israel to call for peace than >have gathered to call to resettle Gaza. More and more Canadian Jews are >finding a home with JSpaceCanada, or ><https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=vpIKej5KTEcCl1LvY555TgYelTvUkTkOubjyZXnP5g4klqDYaEG3UGqhkGcTJ41h&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=9> > Friends of Standing Together, or ><https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=BDFbNwO6Sj6Iw7zEL0naSRsWReVC2VNTo_YSXj-msAY&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=10> > New Israel Fund of Canada, or ><https://www.jspacecanada.ca/r?u=szpOR9wj0naETKxYzf6NLNaHNfDBrKQMbnnhRRWoLLw&e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=11> > Canadian Friends of Peace Now. � I know we can do this, I know the time has come, I know there are enough of us, and <https://www.jspacecanada.ca/donate_peace?e=4f1f22b0aed77879e5888b98f7c91c64&utm_source=jspace&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundraisingemail_peacerally&n=12> I know I can count on you for a gift today to build hope for the future. Because not only are we the future, the future is now. Sincerely, Maytal Kowalski, Executive Director � -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30968): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30968 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107003030/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
