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The ‘Big Hug’ and the future of Jerusalem

The sting of all problems between Israeli and Palestinians lays in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon.

On June 24, the ‘Big Hug’ will be hold in Jerusalem. Light workers from Israel, Palestine and from all over the world, ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’, will come together to bring warmth and energy to this city, embracing holding hands the Old City. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.

We are organizing the Big Hug to make the people aware –especially the Israeli and Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem- that there is a very shaped perspective for the city of Jerusalem as a city of peace: a new, undivided Jerusalem, as the capital of Palestine, Israel and at large.

Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart”, as an independent city, will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse.

The Old City of Jerusalem must become an open city; a House of Prayer for all the Peoples. This perspective is written down in the Holy Books, this is the perspective we, as ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’ embrace as well as solution. But how many people does already notice this hopeful point of view?

What I saw in Jerusalem and also everywhere else where I meet Islamic and Jewish people is, that not so many persons really think about a future for Jerusalem. Most of the time, they stick with old ideas that the Old City of Jerusalem will always remain a part of Israel, or in opposite, that it will be absolutely a part of a new Palestinian state, as stolen land that has to be given back. With these visions, a future Jerusalem will be a divided city with an East Palestinian and West Israeli part, with barbed wire and checkpoints in between, like the situation of the city from 1948-1967. Or, coming closer to an agreement, people suggest -like proposed in the “Geneva Accord” in 2003- to make a complicated dividing of the Old City in a Israeli and Palestinian part. That will mean that the small alleys will be split by walls and barriers too. The idea that a future Jerusalem will become a divided city, is something that we have to prevent.

There are living about 250.000 Palestinian and 500.000 Israeli rather close together in one city. Do they want to make a separation of Jerusalem in parts or do they choose, deep in their hearts, for unity? So my best friends, it is our task to inform the whole city that there is an alternative for the Jerusalem of today.

All lovers of a united Jerusalem will come together to encircle and embrace the Old City of Jerusalem with love and devotion. We have to encourage all inhabitants of Jerusalem to join the coming Big Hug, with the idea of a New Jerusalem that might be realized with their support.

Rob Schrama Phone:0031-646608660 www.loversofjerusalem.org

Hello Alejandra,

I hope all is well with you and your family. I have exciting news!
Where Peace Lives' Kids International Peace Mural Exchange Project is being taken on in Costa Rica. I will ask Donna, my partner, for the school and contact so I can forward it to you.

Much love and peace,
Jeff
I choose peace!
www.wherepeacelives.org

PS - My good friend's 18 year old daughter is now studying in Costa Rica for a semester. It would be great if you would be able to meet her. She is an extraordinary young person making a difference in the world just like you :)

Shabbat Shalom.

Hi Ale,
Thank you for your encouragement! It's always great to hear from you. I noticed a message you wrote below... Make sure you click on "Comment Back" to replay with a message on someone's page.

many thanks for your pretty spoken. Realy we have been satisfied in war, violence, hate... we must recognize each other as human out side of the tradesmans of wars, I mean these groups who are called politicians!!!
always best,

Dear Alejandra Grunspan
I wish I were grow up in peace country. beleive me all our live in Iraq was war, killing, underdgo...etc
It's my right if I want to live in peace, non-war..
I strrugle to don't live our son in war and bloody conditions.
I think the human is a greatest entity..
hope you will keep in touch with me with best glad to you

Hello Alejandra,

Thank you for getting back to me and expressing interest in the Kids International Peace Mural Exchange Project. I am going to forward you e-mail with your personal e-mail address to my partner, Donna Clapp, our executive director. Please feel free to contact me a wherepeacelives1@yahoo.com.
I know you will make a difference in having us fulfill on the project in Costa Rica.
Mucy love and Peace,
Jeff Rudy
Development Director
Where Peace Lives
www.wherepeacelives.org
wherepeacelives1@yahoo.com

Dear Alejandra,

Please be my friend as well as joining my group on this site, Where Peace Lives.

I am the co-founder of Where Peace Lives, a non-profit dedicated to creating a new conversation for peace on behalf of all children and humanity.

This week we were contacted by a govermental ministry from Costa Rica interested in particapating in oour Kids International Peace Mural Exchange Project. Perhaps you could be able to assist us in having this project happen in Costa Rica.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,
Jeff Rudy
Development Director
Where Peace Lives
www.wherepeacelives.org
wherepeacelives1@yahoo.com