Peace-a-mistic Entry

September 20, 2007 - 12:30 PM by Stephanie

Over at East Med Sea Peace, the vibe is pretty mellow. Along the lines of “let’s all get along and try to work out our differences in a peaceful, harmonious fashion, hmmm?”

The blog is made up of a combo of writers – Lirun, an Israeli lawyer living in Jaffa, Shawna, a Canadian transplant to Tel Aviv/Haifa and Nizo, a Palestinian living in Montreal.

Nizo blogged recently about his thoughts these days on potential harmonious meetings of the minds between Israeli-Palestinian types. Judging from the title – My Peacimistic Post - you get the drift.

A sampling:

Back in the Oslo years, my then Jewish ex and I formed a short-lived peace organization at McGill which we oh so imaginatively christened “Jews and Arabs for Peace”. I even ran a peace blog with quite a significant following until I had to take it off-line due to threats of bodily harm from locally based Hamasniks. I always wondered if my attendance at a Reform Lesbian wedding where I donned a lavender kippa made those sourpusses cranky.

Much has happened since Oslo, we had Intifada II, September 11th, not to mention the gradual usurpation of Palestinian dreams by the incorrigibly corrupt gang from Tunis and their alter-ego – the murderous Hamas neanderthals who used the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza as an opportunity to build a belligerent mini-Iran.

…my even bigger fear is the increased religiosity of middle eastern societies and the fact that my tribe of Christian Arabs are on their way to extinction. You see, while our mostly secular women are too busy maintaining their blond highlights in Montreal and Mississauga, Fatima and Rochel are busy popping out Youssefs and Yossels.

Read the rest here. It’s good stuff.

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