Tag Archives: building peace

When reality stares us in the face, face it

Posted on August 4, 2015 by gwpj

On March 14, 2014 journalist Alison Weir published a book “Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the US was used to create Israel.” To date it has received 289 reviews, 79% of them 5-star reviews. One reader … Continue reading →

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Building Peace

Posted on February 22, 2015 by gwpj

How do we build peace? Read this article from Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, on one way to do it: More than 1,000 Muslims form ‘peace ring’ around Oslo synagogue Norway’s Muslims offer symbolic protection for the city’s Jewish … Continue reading →

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Creating peace

Posted on January 23, 2015 by gwpj

For a viable future to be possible we must, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said many years ago, learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools. The reason why is clear: the destructive power of … Continue reading →

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Making Peace

Posted on December 22, 2014 by gwpj

“True peace,” the founder of Panasonic wrote in one of his books, “is not a state of non-war. Peace is a state in which people understand each other, help each other, and share wisdom and power with each other;” (Konosuke … Continue reading →

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