I do not want to start blaming, because then I’d be adding another scoop of hate on top of the hate and before I’d know it I would be engaged in a discussion which I don’t want to be in. There’s no point to it because everyone of us has their own reasons to pull themselves into victimization, sometimes even for some real good reasons.
What can I do without joining the fight? People around me suffer. The world is again a bit more grim. Earthquakes, hurricanes, Trump, Erdogan, Kim...
Just now I spoke to a young woman who wants to carry the world. She feels responsible for the happiness of others and I recognize this. We can’t save or carry the entire world on our shoulders. This is what makes us feel tired, desperate and powerless. Fortunately there is plenty we can do. The young woman works as a trainer with young people from all over the world. If she remains strong and calm and can pass on the peace inside of her, to twenty-four international young people then, on their turn they can bring this with them to their country and spread it there.
Like another example of the Jewish journalist Eva van Sonderen who is active in Jerusalem where she hears rockets and sirens on a daily basis. She joins peace demonstrations where Jews and Palestinians meet with one another. She writes about it, and posts it on Facebook where cooperation does exist. She shows acts of friendship the Israelis do by performing surgery on Palestinian children or the restoration of an electricity pole that had been destroyed by the Hamas so that about 70,000 people in Gaza have electricity again. The one throws bombs and the other helps to build and rescue children.
A student from Gaza made another Jewish journalist aware that both sides have similar fears and the same yearning for peace. The one spits on the other and the other spits back while in the meanwhile enlightened spirits from both sides are meditating and fasting together and realize that they want to save all children from the war.
In the Netherlands the ‘Salaam-Shalom Amsterdam Jewish-Muslim Friendship Circle’ in Amsterdam is working together to help the refugees in Amsterdam. This brings joy and hope to the world. And they are not the only ones. There are many of these projects in the world and even though they don’t show up in the newspapers on a daily basis, they are key signs that the world isn’t lost yet.
I decided for myself to only pass on that what heals, that what unites us, what is clear and what makes us smile."
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