NO MORE
ENEMIES:
a new book
for new life on Earth
Sunday, 10 April 2011
"If we could
read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in
each man's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm
all hostility."
-- Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (1807-1882)
An enemy is one
whose story we have not heard.
-- Ms. Gene
Knudsen-Hoffman (1919-2010)
"How do I
listen to others?
As if everyone
were my Master speaking to me
His cherished last
words."
-- Hafiz (1320-1389, Persia)
Sufi Persian mystic and poet
NO MORE ENEMIES
We on Earth are finally meeting and listening to one
another.
Listening to learn, without "yes, but."
NO MORE ENEMIES
-- http://www.nomoreenemies.net/ -- is the long-awaited
April 2011 book whose publisher proposes:
"What if the very idea
of enemies is killing us?
Could we redesign the way we
see the world, the way we view each other, to shift the paradigm and make the
notion of "enemies" obsolete?
Maybe it is already
obsolete?"
By hearing and dignifying each other -- excluding no one -- many on Earth are
beginning this new way of living.
Creating the new, blessed community circling our
gorgeous one planet.
The obsolete idea of "enemy" is on its way
to the rubbish dump of history.
The 20th century Kabbalist,
Abraham Isaac Kook, well-described this inclusive life available to each
citizen today.
The
Song of Songs
http://traubman.igc.org/song.htm
The wisdom concludes:
"There is one who
ascends with all these songs in unison --
the song of the soul, the
song of the nation, the song of humanity, the song of the cosmos --
resounding together, blending
in harmony, circulating the sap of life,
the sound of holy joy."
LISTEN to the sound of holy joy.
SEE the new global community gathering.
The How-To Story:
One citizen
building a virtual global community choir 2,000 voices strong
15-min video
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong.html
and
The Whole Song --
Sleep:
Harmony of youth
and adults from 57 nations
10 min video
http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir
NO MORE ENEMIES
in real life, this March
1001 STORIES OF COMMON GROUND -- http://www.1001cgstories.org/
-- is a
platform for people who believe in constructive, cooperative change at the
interpersonal level.
DISCOVER citizens-like-you who not only imagine a
bright future, but who are shaping their own communities in a positive way and
want to share their efforts and impact with the world.
VIEW inspiring videos:
1001 Stories of
Common Ground
Stories
of Positive Change in the Middle East and North Africa
http://www.1001cgstories.org/videos
HEARTBEAT -- http://www.wix.com/heartbeatjerusalem/home
-- in March
2011, gathered 30 courageous young Palestinian and Jewish musicians lived and
harmonized together.
From East and West Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Rehovot, Tira, Majdal Shams, Raanana, and Haifa,
their nearly 48 hours of nearly non-stop music creation succeeded to:
1. cut through the
silence of the desert
2. transcend the fear,
violence and separation of the rest of the country
3. blast an exuberant
medley of Arabic hip-hop, Balkan beats, funk, jazz, traditional Arabic music,
Jewish music, roots, reggae and rock n' roll all the way back to our home
cities to the North.
The Muslims, Jews, and Christians:
1. brought together a
new group of Heartbeat Jurusalem participants for a
fun and meaningful experience
2. co-created a safe
space to develop their musical skills and knowledge
3. mutually helped
develop and bring out one another's voice
4. explored music as a
tool for communication and social change.
5. wrote new songs
6. explored the
language of music through improvisation
7. studied different
musical styles
8. listened to each
other
9. communicated, lived,
and performed in harmony, creating a Desert Retreat to offer first time
participants a taste of Heartbeat while preparing to engage with each other
throughout the year.
VIEW photos:
HEARTBEAT
RETREAT
Amplifying
Youth Voices -- March 2011
http://www.facebook.com/heartbeatjerusalem
PEACE CHILD ISRAEL -- http://www.mideastweb.org/peacechild/west_side_story_pr.html
-- in
March 2011 gave voice and stage to Palestinian and Jewish Israeli youth who
created and performed their own bilingual adaption of the Broadway musical
"West Side Story."
Opening night was March 25, 2011, at the Anis Theatre
in Jaffa.
In alternating Arabic and Hebrew, the students from
Gymnasia Herzliya, a Jewish school in North Tel Aviv,
and Ironi Yud-Bet, an Arab
school in Jaffa, danced and sang together, using theater as their tool to
create a better shared society.
"Peace
Child Israel" Jewish and Arab Students
Learn
Values of Coexistence through Theater
Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassyta/sets/72157626387062684/
Jewish
and Arab Students Perform West Side Story
Parallel story posted on DipNote -- 07 April 2011
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/west_side_story_israel
and
3-1/2 min video -- 13 April
2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOULatUZmFs
The Palestinian and Jewish Israeli youth so love their cooperation that they
accomplished the difficult, sophisticated fete of creating lyrics of the
classical songs in alternating Hebrew and Arabic.
LISTEN and realize what is possible -- the
sound of holy joy:
AMERICA
Peace
Child Israel
March 2011
4-min audio --
Hebrew and Arabic
http://www.mideastweb.org/peacechild/AMERICA.wma
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These and hundreds of other success stories are preserved at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm