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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My Dearest Peggy, and my oslist
friends.</FONT></DIV>
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I have been away for few weeks and since I came back I
practically find it impossible to catch up...</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As I came back I became aware of the thread you
initiated that had to do with the middle east.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I find it hard , painful , and exhausting to try to
articulate (in English!, makes it so much harder) all that I think and feel
right now both as an indevidual and a proffessional but I do not want to stay
out of this space that you have opened. I am moved by everyone's sincerity, deep
concern and willfulness to help. That energy knocks on the tired, closed to
communication, space in me right now. Thank you :</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> My oldest son, Assaf, will join
the Israeli army on July 23, 2001. It is a mandaroty 3 years service for every
youngster at 18. I am not able to see any horizon that beams hope, comfort
or meaning for the first time in my personal history. I know (in my mind)
this "no end" is only an illusion but yet this is how I feel lately. I guess for
me this is the hardest to take. At times I do not find enough internal
assurance that " everything is as it should be"...and when I do, it is when I am
better able to carry the pain, both of Palestinians and Jews, personal and
collective.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Like your
border, Peggy, I asked myself many times 'how can I help' generate
good?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> for the last two years I was on the board of
directors of "Besod Shiach" a non profit organization comprised of professionals
who work to promote and enable dialogue between groups of extremes in the
Israeli society ( religious and secular; Israeli Arabs and Jews; Sfaradic and
Ashkenazi ect. ) I served on the management team of a yearly Conference designed
to "explore responsibility, authority and leadership in a society with multiple
identities". it took place during the riots of October
2000 in Pekiyin, an Arabic village in the Galilee, that also has
Druze families and even one family. Inspite of the surrealism we went on
with it for 3 days and nights. It was very intense and very moving on the
personal and group level, yet not nessecerely hopeful all the time. There where
dead ends and hopelessness, detours and creativity and rage and compassion...but
the bout of our country and region was rocked so hard that from where I stand it
is only a drop in the ocean .</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Probably there is a lot of space needed to let go
of fear and hearted . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> As for now I focus on the
little good I defenetly can do very well and that is help creating/opening some
space for deferent people wherever they are willing to try, practicing some
"anti dot treatment" to balance out slammed space.. and along with that trying
to hold some space for me, my son, family, friends etc. Leave some space for a
day in a life of an individual. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for thinking about the middle east with
compassion, I can breath the oxygen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>much love to you and all of you</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>your friend in the limitless space</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tova</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tova Averbuch</FONT></DIV>
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