Funda
So you think that the only challenge is to stop the Israeli aggression?
The world looks very simple from your point of view.
Best
Shay
(Proud Israeli & seeking for peace)
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From: "Funda Oral" <fundao...@ttnet.net.tr>
To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our
contribution
In the last 2 months, i stopped reading newspapers to protect the health
of my mind.
But i still follow some summaries.
I am reading that Gazze is like a "hell" Israel is bombing the city.
Israel is giving the electricity only 2 hours.
People don't have food, water and medicine.
I hope we find power and courage to get over....to build peace...........
Funda
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From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpa...@boscop.de>
To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our
contribution
Dear Filiz and you others,
I was involved in it as the facilitator together with Yaari, Anna,Dominik
and Vera (essentially the same team we had at the meeting of 200+ Imams
and Rabbis earlier this year in Sevilla, you can see all of them in the
open space world map).
The conference started Sunday July 2nd and closed on Thursday morning,
July 6. The open space part began on Monday afternoon and closed on
Wednesday evening.
There were 8 breakout sessions (which made it the longest os I ever
facilitated), 40 issues, 34 reports and 30 action proposals with concrete
steps...all in all a normal os-event.
There were about 20 Israelis and 20 Palestinians and 60+ people from
other places interested in Peace in that region.
People in attendance from the region like Avner Haramati from Israel and
Carol Daniel-Kasbari from Palestine could tell you more about what
happened there and what it means...I just experienced the normal peaceful
process of open space with lots of excited people.
The call for someone to coordinate all of this is both common and at the
same time an issue that the person feeling this call can follow through
on. In fact, some got together and had a pretty well worked out plan
including the financing to create an internet platform to do just that.
One participant summed it up in the Closing Circle (similarly to what ho
observed and recorded in "The Practice of Peace" at the gathering in Rome
a couple of years ago)with the words:
"Everyday looking at the reports on television, listening to the radio,
reading the newspapers windows to hell open up for me. Here a window to
heaven opened."
The productive, peaceful quality of this event in the face of what
happens in the war zones many participants came from is a miracle.
Since there was an agreement not to take pictures and not to produce a
book of proceedings and not to copy the action proposals participants now
will rely on their ingenuity and their selforganized very detailed
contact list to continue the work.
Greetings from Berlin getting ready to fire up the barbecue for 3 of my
grandchildren visiting ....
See you in Moscow in 3 weeks
mmp
Filiz Telek wrote:
Apparently there was another “open space” for middle east peace..anyone
was involved in it?
Monday, 10 July 2006
To all Peace Workers;
the conference at the Lasalle-Institute "Jerusalem, City of Peace" has
finished. For three long days about 120 people met, guided and
accompanied by the method of "open space" in order to communicate about
visions, possible projects, and new possibilities of cooperation.
Considering the urgency of the current situation it is debatable whether
the methods of „open space“ can achieve satisfactory result. “Open
space” is able to start the activity and the dialogue among the
participants, but then I was missing the coordinating, co-guiding
element, the person who keeps the overview and participates form there
in a guiding way. For me the extraordinary quality of the conference
consisted in the fact that people gathered who won’t meet normally. It
belongs to the consistent method of the representatives of the
Lasalle-Institute that they want to initiate the change on government
level as well as on the level of projects which are working at the very
basis. A big thanks goes to Pater Niklaus Brantschen, Anna Gamma and Pia
Gyger for their tireless and unconditional commitment for peace in the
Middle East.
Results of the conference: new contacts were made, architectural models
for Jerusalem as a world city of peace were presented. The film “We
Refuse to be Enemies” was presented and found good resonance. Letters to
decisive representatives of governments and religions were worded in
order to declare Jerusalem a weapon-free zone. My impression is that
many peace workers do not yet see how much we must change structures and
systems and to what extend we are challenged to develop new functioning
models. Would the world evolve as much about peace as it just evolved
about football, we were for sure on the winners’ side. This is the focus
for which we from the Healing
Biotope I participated. With patience and persistence we direct our
perseverance and our continual work to this point again and again. In me
it causes the radicalisation to reinforce my commitment for the
humanization of money and to set off for my way to motivate business
people to invest their
money in the development of models for peace villages. With the amount
of money that one tank costs we could do powerful steps of manifestation
in the global peace movement. The developing peace villages would be
something like the points of crystallization and energy accelerators to
make one perspective of the peace movement visible. I phrased a new
pilgrim-text that I want to send out in the Ring of Power this time. May
it be heard by the relevant forces.
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