January 2011 Blog Posts (15)

Today - MEPEACE Encounter and Fundraising

Today MEPEACE is initiating the Encounter - a new chat event engaging experts on Middle East peace. You are invited to join our chat today at 20.00 (Jerusalem time).

See more at: http://www.mepeace.org/events/mepeace-encounter-jan-30

Our expert today is Gershon Baskin, founder and co-director of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI). With recent events in Tunisia…

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Added by Eyal Raviv on January 30, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Medics on the Move for Peace and Diplomacy

The last year of the decade had just started. Times were tough, the worst recession In decades had set in with a vengeance. Around the world people were getting antsy. Issues once settled with diplomacy and human decency were being resolved with guns, dynamite, and planes turned missile.

Whether by intent, design or inadvertently, the media elevates the extremes, the hostility, the bombs.A bomb would go off in Islamabad, maybe a few hundred dollars in dynamite, an old car an…

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Added by Dan Moody on January 30, 2011 at 5:48am — No Comments

Recommendations - Jan 28

MEPEACE Recommendations - January 28

MEPEACE is a network for peace with thousands of peacemakers and millions of page visits on mepeace.org. Thank you for being a peacemaker!

This week we recommend for you to share and…

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Added by Oliver Haack on January 28, 2011 at 7:13am — No Comments

Healing collective trauma will lead to peace in the Holy Land

There’s a common misperception that the constant state of warfare and conflict that besets the Holy Land, Eretz Israel, or in Arabic, Bilad Ash' Sham, is a result of some cultural or racial flaw—“oh, they’ve been fighting for two thousand years, they’ll never stop.”

Even the most cursory examination of human history reveals skirmishes, battles, and…

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Added by Byron DeLear on January 26, 2011 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

The Palestinian perspective - Remembering the forgotten 90%

In Australia Europeans justified invasion based on the doctrine of Terra nullius. It is a despicable legal trick that legitimises occupation by denying the existence of a people. Europeans defined people as 'civilised' and claimed Aboriginals were not civilised, therefore they did not fall into the definition of a people.

In the context of Israel and Palestine. The worst proponent of this terra…

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Added by Stewart Mills on January 26, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

The misleading spin on the Palestine Papers story -- hatred rather than insight

The Palestine Papers do not expose the traitorous leadership of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but rather expose the under belly of the false arguments of the extremists on both sides.

The Palestine Papers show that the Palestinians have made a genuine effort to compromise offer Israel the MOST GENEROUS PEACE OFFER EVER (do those words sound familiar) and instead of accepting and embrace peace, Israel's government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the peace…

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Added by Ray Hanania on January 26, 2011 at 4:47am — 1 Comment

Update and Request

In exactly four weeks, I will arrive in the United States to fundraise for our work at MEPEACE. Please consider supporting this effort in one of three ways:

Contribute directly: http://www.mepeace.org/page/support-mepeace

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Email me a testimonial - tell me how MEPEACE has helped you (…

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Added by Eyal Raviv on January 25, 2011 at 9:55am — No Comments

Promoting Peace, Inspiring Hope, Delivering Healing

Promoting Peace, Inspiring Hope, Delivering Healing

To: Secure a safer saner world through next generation medical technology combined with the most advanced aeronautics, molded with the art of diplomacy and the heart of compassion.

How: Development of a Teaching Surgery aboard a 747-400 with accompanying 757 supply plane equipped with audio Visual teaching tools and…

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Added by Dan Moody on January 22, 2011 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Recommendations - Jan 21

MEPEACE Recommendations - January 21

MEPEACE is a network for peace with thousands of peacemakers and millions of page visits on mepeace.org. Thank you for being a peacemaker!

This week we recommend for you to share and…

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Added by Oliver Haack on January 21, 2011 at 7:09am — No Comments

MEPEACE Fundraising - Letter from Eyal

Dear MEPEACE Friend, I ask you for your support as I am readying to fundraise for MEPEACE in the United States. For more than a year, MEPEACE has created at least one event every week, including: Chat Workshops, Online Peace Talks, Volunteer Chats, Calls for Compassion, 'Peace Talks', the Peace Cafe and leadership seminars. We are working now on new events and your help is needed. I ask for your support to build on our successes for Middle East peace.

I will go to New York,…

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Added by Eyal Raviv on January 17, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Recommendations - Jan 14

MEPEACE Recommendations - January 14

MEPEACE is a network for peace with thousands of peacemakers and millions of page visits on mepeace.org. Thank you for being a peacemaker!

This week we recommend for you to share and…

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Added by Oliver Haack on January 14, 2011 at 7:03am — No Comments

MY GIFT TO ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEACEMAKERS ON MEPEACE.ORG FOR 2011!

Enjoy... "Eutopia (Move a Mountain)" and "Mansour Ya Salaam (I Dream of Eutopia)"

Blending enlightened visions into the real world, the crux of eutopian desire.

Back in 1993-94, I embarked on an exciting journey with my first experience in public service through helping a public teacher friend of mine. I was working in the entertainment field and was introduced by…

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Added by Byron DeLear on January 7, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Recommendations - Jan 7

MEPEACE Recommendations - January 7

MEPEACE is a network for peace with thousands of peacemakers and millions of page visits on mepeace.org. Thank you for being a peacemaker!

This week we recommend for you to share and…

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Added by Oliver Haack on January 7, 2011 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Are there any Israelis that still believe in Peace?

New law that just passed thru

"The Knesset has approved the foundation of a parliamentary committee that will look into the doings of leftist organizations that criticize the activity of IDF soldiers in the Palestinian territories. The initiative, which was proposed by MK Faina Kirshenbaum, was approved by a majority of 47 MKs, while 16 voted against her."

I am Israeli and , believe me , I can not understand how any Israelis can still believe in peace. …

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Added by gabriel etinzon on January 5, 2011 at 6:36pm — No Comments