Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution
Funda Oral
fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr
Wed Jul 12 23:53:14 PDT 2006
Shay,
I am sorry if my e-mail has offended you in any way.
"So you think that the only challenge is to stop the Israeli aggression?"
I don't know. I don't think anything.
I only wanted to write the words i read in the news yesterday at the same
time
with the news about ost meeting. I felt a little strange, couldn't keep
quiet and wanted to share this feeling.
"The world looks very simple from your point of view."
I really wished that "making peace"....."to stop anybody's aggression" had
been much more "simple"
regards,
Funda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shay Ben Yosef" <shayby at communitynet.co.il>
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our
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> 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)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
> To: <OSLIST at 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.de>
>> To: <OSLIST at 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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>>>
>>>
>>> Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
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>>> www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de
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