Yoram Getzler's Comments

Hello,

iPeace is deleted from David Califa the end of June. Here you can find a new home.

http://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/

You are cordially invited.

Warm regards, Eva

I write to you you are just the picture after me. I am very sad because I receive a video I do not like it. I am a open-mind and I do not think this way of thinking is helpfull for the world. I do not like the title even I do not understand what is the about, I cannot understand american language. I tell you it because I do not know what I can I do for taking off my page.
all the best for you where you are.

A HISTORY OF PROTEST IN MY LIFE
at 1 and 60

I did not do enough,
although it was in my heart.
I wanted to enjoy
the warmth of life
more than to put out
the fires of war.

I protested
but I did not sacrifice.
I marched
while the innocent and guilty alike
were burned by death from the sky.

Maybe if that child in
Vietnam
had not died of napalm,
the children of Iraq would
not now be
dying in my name?

Being an American,
I chose the ease of
what we call freedom.
I said, "No,"
but I did not make myself heard in
the power of compassionate
denouncement. I said “Yes,”
but not always to otherness
and not with the strength and
reverence of beatitude.

When I die
war will not have
left the lovely Earth and
should I come back in
the perfume of a flower, likely
the petals will be
stained with freshly fallen blood.

What child’s cheek
may yet come to paint with
pain the soft white of the lily? What
lust may yet harvest
the agony of thorns,
while crushing the ecstasy of roses?

I did not do enough,
although I had set out
to make a monument of
War No More.

There is my failure.
The teeming world of
tears that so easily tips
into fear and madness
does not need
these words alone. Rather,
a communion
where none are absent. Where
there can be anger as
an emotional bubble but
not enemies and
not crimes of hate.

It is said that
freedom is not free;
but it is
death that is made wholesale.
The axiom is propaganda. Peace
requires the greater vulnerability.

I have done some:
having spoken
when others remained silent; having
stepped up on occasion,
while others withdrew. But I have
not done enough. I know this,
so do you.

That yet another generation must
plant the seeds of healing I
have dreamed of and they,
labor for the season
I have not known.

Yet have I read, in
visions of prophecy,
that a tree will in twilight later grow
at the center of the circle of life; the
weapons of fratricide be
beaten down, the vineyards filled
with the royalty of angels. Robins
singing and butterflies,
not boy-men crying
for their mothers’ mercy.


Rather,
to dance in that round in
footprints of a loving God! To stand in prayer
blessed beneath that
earthly bough.
When?

David Sparenberg
3 Feb. 2009

Why can't we just get along with each other????

Hi Yoram, ma shlomej?

Lot's of Peace, Love and Joy in your beautiful Heart...




l am so sorry about you Semites always fighting...

I was trying to add u but i could not.
God bless.

Thank you so much for watching and commenting on our video!
Hugs from Jerusalem,
Adena Levine,
Peace Preschool Director.

I will find out by writing to my friends...the father is Morris
and his wife was ...can't remember, she died. Anyhow I will find out...would be neat you were family.
thanks
steph

yoram..perhaps if you put your discussion about "What Did Hamas..." as a blog post..it would get more coverage..(It would show up on the home page of Ipeace I think)

Hello
I just saw your name next to that of a man who asked for friendship
Your last name was the name of my best friend, Sharon from Los Angeles. Her father, over 90, is Morris Getzler. Any relationship?? wonderful friends, and father is amazing. Let's be friends!

Thanks for connecting Yoram.