I focus my experiencing and awareness on being
"a pioneer of Evolution in
learning to feel":
I let my Body vibrate and my Heart 'womb'
pain, shame, fear, boredom, powerlessness,
so feelings can >heal >guide>fulfill>evolve,
and ~~~ offer ~~~"goldmines"~~~ to us all!! "I
want you to feel everything, every little thing!"
1)
E-volving, Un-folding the "SPS" resources
of the Desert
S P A C E
P U R I T Y
S I L E N C E
[as opposed to the cities' crowdedness, pollution
& noise],
will be the great CHALLENGE , which will
help Jews and Arabs
to bring about E Q U
A L I T Y in S E L F
- E S T E E M .
2)
Since 1974, my peace-work[started in 1958] has been based on:
Transforming a negative dependency into a positive
dependency.
3)
Positive dependency or" Partnership" is based on 3 conditions:
COMMON INTEREST / MUTUAL TRUST / EQUALITY in SELF-ESTEEM.
4)
After 40 years of having PRACTICALLY tested this theory ,
I know, that EQUALITY in SELF-ESTEEM can only be realized,
if the adversaries, forced into mutual dependency by destiny,
will engage in COPING TOGETHER
with a CHALLENGE
which is SO BIG , that it DWARFS the GAP in SELF-ESTEEM.
As so often now during the summer
holidays,
I took Yael and Itamar to the pool at Neve-Shalom,
where they have a good time with Arnon and Ayelet.
When we returned to our cars, Ra'ayah, me and the kids,
I couldn't ignite Ronnit's car and needed to ask for help.
The man, an Arab, went into the village
and fetched another Arab man, Ibrahim.
"I've been living here for 14 years", he said, when I thanked for his help.
So I told him:
"Do you know, how Neve-Shalom
started?
There was that Jewish monk, Bruno Husar, yes,
to whom the Trappist Monastery of Latroun
leased this hill for 99 years for a symbolic price,
in order to erect a Jewish-Arab settlement.
He lived here with Ann, a French woman friend
and Abdul-Salaam from an Israeli Arab village.
"Then we came, "Partnership", in August 1977,
and organized a camp for Arab and Jewish youth.
My daughter(girl with
2 braids) and my younger son,
the mother and the father of these four children,
also took part. One participant, Nava Sonnenschein, (the later
wife of the man in the middle),
then gathered the nucleus of Arabs and Jews for the settlement.
And you with your help now have returned some of my investment!"
He probably didn't grasp what was implied in this
statement.
But I savored the significance of this interaction.
The finale of the camp was a festival
balloons and peace-messages were sent into the air
and 11 different tunes to my "Partnership-Hymn" were performed. One of them - the
only one that suited both the Hebrew and the Arabic text - was chosen.
Despite the fast deterioration of Arab-Jewish relations
in Israel,
Neve-Shalom has its school for Jewish and Arab children,
its peace-training-school for groups from Israel and abroad,
and its swimming-pool, where Arabs and Jews swim together.
Above the pool - with me, Yael and Itamar -
the towers of an enormous tent.
I once took part in a workshop with Sufi-dancers, that took place
in the tent. Behind Arnon and Ayelet a group of Arabs
enjoy sitting above the pool
I've told the "good" part of what I feel
towards Neve-Shalom.
There is another - dark and painful - part too ~~~
2002_08_18 I finally came to the pool in the morning, when
the office was open.
I found old Abed - Abdus-salaam Najar -
who in 1977 was the only Arab together with Bruno Husar, a monk, born
as a Jew in Egypt,
his French friend Ann [on April
20, 2009 I found her in the office!!!] and
some non-Jewish volunteers from abroad.
Abed was our cook at the camp.
Now he is the Director of Development, has four kids, two study at
the Hebrew University.
Abed gave me their website. Not surprised, but still hurt, I found,
that the summercamp is not mentioned anywhere.
It was this camp, which was the bridge between Bruno Husar's dream
and its realization.
Also: people who had found Neve Shalom through me, like Aharon Wesseley,
came their by "good fortune"!??
And maybe, this is good, considering the sad role Aharon played in
evicting
my partner Rushdi and his family.
2003_06_12
Since I'm determined to
bring Healing-K.I.S.S. to completion until July 3, 2003,
I shall not continue the above story.
I made peace with Nava Sonnenschein, on the phone at least, at the
end of last year's pool season. [On April 20, 2009 I met Nava briefly,
she invited me for coffee, but "there was no time"...]
And what I feel now, in the 2003 season, which just started, is this:
Amidst an even more horrifying deterioration of war and terror in
the Holy Land,
- yesterday 16 Israelis were killed and 100 wounded, many of them
severely,
and today it was the man, who was Israel's target, with his wife and
2 small kids and 3 more Palestinians, -
I listened to the sound of easy chat between two mothers, who sat
next to me and my grandkids.
The Arab mother (right) talked Arabic to her children, but accent-free
Hebrew to the other mother.
I did not catch the other mother talking Arabic to the first mother,
but the idyll gave me comfort.
It's
useful to read, watch and listen,
but
it's delightful and healing
to tune into our sounding
with your own voice
and
dance heaven to earth
and to
I follow my
understanding and new lekh-lekhâ on January 1, 2009,
that - after 7 years -
I should no longer create new pages on my 2 websites,
but intermingle the evidence of new experiences with that on existing
pages.
In this case: my experience with Neve-Shalom (April 19-21, 2009) during
the
"Walk About Love 2009" continuation
of April 19, 2009 , our arrival at Neve-Shalom;
latest update of this page:
July 29, 2009
It was on the trail to the right that we reached
Neve-Shalom from the east - coming from "The Cat's Hill"
(giv'at hakhatulah) at
Sha'ar Ha-Gai.
Closest to our camping-ground at the edge of the
forest above I discerned these villas...
And below them a "Spiritual Pluralistic Center"
, dedicated to
Bruno Husar
A Sabre-cactus with an incredible abundance
of fruits for once !!! does not indicate a destroyed Arab village!
an idyllic sight of "The Oasis of Peace"
, and yet....
Continuation of photos
about my personal "Intermezzo" in "The Walk about
Love":
Walking from Neve-Shalom to the Ecological Farm at Modi'in
on Holocaust Day,
