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Peace for Jerusalem

It is now the moment in the world history, that humanity might transcend its conscience as citizen to a higher level. People must realize that they themselves have the strength to intervene to stop a new, already started World War. An era of peace and Enlightenment lies ahead. To bring closer the step to peace on earth, the realization of peace between Israel and the Palestinian people will be the most important event for solving the conflicts in the entire Middle East.

The sting of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians stems from a very small territory the size of one square kilometer: the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.

We call upon all women of the world to come to Jerusalem, come with many and bring warmth and energy to this city. The narrow alleys within the town walls are in the first place the area of the men, selling their stuff in their shops. But above these alleys lies an immense public Rooftop Promenade, where especially the women from the Old City come together, because their houses end there. It is situated exactly on the spot in the city, where the Islamic, Christian, Jewish and Armenian districts meet. It will be a unique area for gatherings of a lot of hundreds of women, coming from everywhere in the world.

Women of Jerusalem: open your gates for these women and give them guidance and shelter; treat them as your sisters. By practicing meditations and healings, they will bring calm to this wounded part of the earth and give comfort and hope to its inhabitants. The presence of women will surely contribute to reconciliation. Men can follow their example. It does not concern a fight between women and men, but boosting the female energy in the Middle East. Also men can help to develop this extant female energy in their selves.

The complex of squares above the city, with a view on all her sanctuaries, guarantees a direct contact with The Omnipotent, Who wishes His City on this Earth to be preserved and to become a city of peace. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. This will pave the way towards an undivided Jerusalem as the capitol of Palestine, Israel and at large.

To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart” will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse. It goes a step further than the “Geneva Accord” from 2003, in which a complicated dividing of the Old City was suggested. By keeping the entity of the Old City tensions between her inhabitants will be prevented. They live above, under or between sanctuaries of which borders and property rights are difficult to be traced and divided. By the continual presence of women on the Rooftop Promenade, the option to give free the Old City to the Almighty will become a dignified solution for all parties in the conflict to get a permanent peace.

There are sufficient contacts through women groups, peace movements and through spiritual networks, in Europe and in the Middle East, to get in motion a human energy towards Jerusalem. Women can exploit holidays consciously, to give their contribution to this peace process for a short or a longer time.

In Amsterdam the Jerusalem Hug Foundation has been established to bundle the existing networks, creating a global operating travel agency that takes care that women can come safely to Jerusalem. Jerusalem Hug will contribute to new conscience of women, who are able to change the situation of violence into a situation of peace in the Middle East. The foundation will apply for financial support and to take care for international publicity activities. In the mean time, we hope that everyone who is interested, gets in contact with us.

Jerusalem Hug Foundation

Phone Rob Schrama:

*31-646608660

*972-524631067

Phone Dvora Perlman:

*972-526523355

www.jerusalemhug.org

PEACE CAMPAIGN IN JERUSALEM

ROB SCHRAMA MADE A SPECIAL ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE PEACE WHEN HE WAS IN JERUSALEM JUST THEN THE PALESTINE INTIFADA STARTED.

Article in: TM Magazine march 2001

Artist Rob Schrama writes us at the 5th of October 2000 when he stayed in Jerusalem for the benefit of an art project:

“Because violence has been increasing more and more over here, I just started with the most elemental answer to it: meditation.
I am a guest of the director of the Academy of Jerusalem, a club of enlightened minds who devote themselves towards a better relation between Israeli and Palestinians. The director is just like me a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation.
I proposed to meditate in public in front of the Wailing Wall, on a protected small square a few meters above the big square.
Last Wednesday we started, first with three people, on cushions and blankets we had brought along. We formed a circle that was soon widened with friends we had drummed up and alternated meditations with prayer and singing.

We also held discussions about the situation in Jerusalem.

Because we used a “speaker staff,” everybody got the possibility to tell his or her story, without being interrupted. From the beginning we attracted a great deal of attention and many people joined our circle, Arabians, orthodox Jews, yes, even police officers and soldiers. In this way we were told the most horrible witness stories.

We went on deep into the night and slept in the open air. We became increasingly stronger; we felt that our energy and our powerful, optimistic behaviour influenced the environment in a positive way. On Friday our group had grown to more than twenty people.

This day of mosque attendance was proclaimed the Day of Anger. The expectation was that after the Morning Prayer in the Al-Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount, rioting Palestinians would threaten the Jews. Our small square formed a strategic place in front of it. Early in the morning dozens of armed soldiers and policemen came to occupy it. There was hardly place for them; the blankets and the cushions almost covered the whole square. The soldiers were influenced by our cheerful mood; they smiled also and there faces showed respect. Some of them came and sat down with us on the benches in our circle and sang along with us Israeli songs. Tourists also spontaneously joined our “Circle for love and peace.”

Twenty minutes before the people would leave the mosque we started with a silence session. And yes indeed, on the other side we heard the roaring and raging of a flood of falling rocks and the first series gunshots.
It looked like a war was going on and the strange thing was: I felt perfectly quiet and completely certain of the power of our group.

Immediately I heard the barking out of orders and the spectators were removed from our small square the hard way. Carefully people cleared the way along our deathly quiet circle, obeying the order and the pushing of the soldiers. The most remarkable – but also by me unexpected – thing happened: the soldiers as well as their officers respected our group and left us meditating. It almost looked like they protected us just as we protected them. It felt as an unspoken form of solidarity. And while the booming of heavy artillery and the firing of gunshots was heard everywhere around us, no shot was fired by “our” group of soldiers.

After twenty minutes it suddenly was deadly silent everywhere around us. There was nothing to hear at all anymore. I opened my eyes and looked at the amazed soldiers who looked over the parapet to the big square near the Wailing Wall. It was abandoned. “The soldiers have withdrawn,” told the officer in charge. “The violence is over.”

The circle of friends stood up and embraced each other. Soldiers came laughing and crying towards us, shook our hands, and hit us on the shoulder and offered cigarettes (which nobody wanted.) Something special had happened and we all new we had something to do with it.

“Really, silence helps against violence.”

ROB SCHRAMA
Article in: TM Magazine march 2001

In the autumn of the year 2000 Rob Schrama was a guest at the Academy of Jerusalem, an organization of enlightened spirits from the whole world who offer solutions for an undivided, peaceful coexisting Jerusalem as capital for Palestine as well as Israel. Both illustrations show a vision of the future for this city by the founder of the Academy of Jerusalem: Dr. Jitschak Hayut-Man.

You can find more information on this website: Dr. Jitschak Hayut-Man : www. thehope.org

Peace for Jerusalem It is now the moment in the world history, that humanity might transcend its conscience as citizen to a higher level. People must realize that they themselves have the strength to intervene to stop a new, already started World War. An era of peace and Enlightenment lies ahead. To bring closer the step to peace on earth, the realization of peace between Israel and the Palestinian people will be the most important event for solving the conflicts in the entire Middle East. The sting of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians stems from a very small territory the size of one square kilometer: the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place. We call upon all women of the world to come to Jerusalem, come with many and bring warmth and energy to this city. The narrow alleys within the town walls are in the first place the area of the men, selling their stuff in their shops. But above these alleys lies an immense public Rooftop Promenade, where especially the women from the Old City come together, because their houses end there. It is situated exactly on the spot in the city, where the Islamic, Christian, Jewish and Armenian districts meet. It will be a unique area for gatherings of a lot of hundreds of women, coming from everywhere in the world. Women of Jerusalem: open your gates for these women and give them guidance and shelter; treat them as your sisters. By practicing meditations and healings, they will bring calm to this wounded part of the earth and give comfort and hope to its inhabitants. The presence of women will surely contribute to reconciliation. Men can follow their example. It does not concern a fight between women and men, but boosting the female energy in the Middle East. Also men can help to develop this extant female energy in their selves. The complex of squares above the city, with a view on all her sanctuaries, guarantees a direct contact with The Omnipotent, Who wishes His City on this Earth to be preserved and to become a city of peace. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. This will pave the way towards an undivided Jerusalem as the capitol of Palestine, Israel and at large. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart” will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse. It goes a step further than the “Geneva Accord” from 2003, in which a complicated dividing of the Old City was suggested. By keeping the entity of the Old City tensions between her inhabitants will be prevented. They live above, under or between sanctuaries of which borders and property rights are difficult to be traced and divided. By the continual presence of women on the Rooftop Promenade, the option to give free the Old City to the Almighty will become a dignified solution for all parties in the conflict to get a permanent peace. There are sufficient contacts through women groups, peace movements and through spiritual networks, in Europe and in the Middle East, to get in motion a human energy towards Jerusalem. Women can exploit holidays consciously, to give their contribution to this peace process for a short or a longer time. In Amsterdam the Jerusalem Hug Foundation has been established to bundle the existing networks, creating a global operating travel agency that takes care that women can come safely to Jerusalem. Jerusalem Hug will contribute to new conscience of women, who are able to change the situation of violence into a situation of peace in the Middle East. The foundation will apply for financial support and to take care for international publicity activities. In the mean time, we hope that everyone who is interested, gets in contact with us. *Jerusalem Hug* Foundation Phone Rob Schrama: 31-646608660 972-524631067 Phone Dvora Perlman: 972-526523355 www.jerusalemhug.org PEACE CAMPAIGN IN JERUSALEM* ROB SCHRAMA MADE A SPECIAL ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE PEACE WHEN HE WAS IN JERUSALEM JUST THEN THE PALESTINE INTIFADA STARTED. Article in: TM Magazine march 2001 Artist Rob Schrama writes us at the 5th of October 2000 when he stayed in Jerusalem for the benefit of an art project: “Because violence has been increasing more and more over here, I just started with the most elemental answer to it: meditation. I am a guest of the director of the Academy of Jerusalem, a club of enlightened minds who devote themselves towards a better relation between Israeli and Palestinians. The director is just like me a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation. I proposed to meditate in public in front of the Wailing Wall, on a protected small square a few meters above the big square. Last Wednesday we started, first with three people, on cushions and blankets we had brought along. We formed a circle that was soon widened with friends we had drummed up and alternated meditations with prayer and singing. We also held discussions about the situation in Jerusalem. Because we used a “speaker staff,” everybody got the possibility to tell his or her story, without being interrupted. From the beginning we attracted a great deal of attention and many people joined our circle, Arabians, orthodox Jews, yes, even police officers and soldiers. In this way we were told the most horrible witness stories. We went on deep into the night and slept in the open air. We became increasingly stronger; we felt that our energy and our powerful, optimistic behaviour influenced the environment in a positive way. On Friday our group had grown to more than twenty people. This day of mosque attendance was proclaimed the Day of Anger. The expectation was that after the Morning Prayer in the Al-Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount, rioting Palestinians would threaten the Jews. Our small square formed a strategic place in front of it. Early in the morning dozens of armed soldiers and policemen came to occupy it. There was hardly place for them; the blankets and the cushions almost covered the whole square. The soldiers were influenced by our cheerful mood; they smiled also and there faces showed respect. Some of them came and sat down with us on the benches in our circle and sang along with us Israeli songs. Tourists also spontaneously joined our “Circle for love and peace.” Twenty minutes before the people would leave the mosque we started with a silence session. And yes indeed, on the other side we heard the roaring and raging of a flood of falling rocks and the first series gunshots. It looked like a war was going on and the strange thing was: I felt perfectly quiet and completely certain of the power of our group. Immediately I heard the barking out of orders and the spectators were removed from our small square the hard way. Carefully people cleared the way along our deathly quiet circle, obeying the order and the pushing of the soldiers. The most remarkable – but also by me unexpected – thing happened: the soldiers as well as their officers respected our group and left us meditating. It almost looked like they protected us just as we protected them. It felt as an unspoken form of solidarity. And while the booming of heavy artillery and the firing of gunshots was heard everywhere around us, no shot was fired by “our” group of soldiers. After twenty minutes it suddenly was deadly silent everywhere around us. There was nothing to hear at all anymore. I opened my eyes and looked at the amazed soldiers who looked over the parapet to the big square near the Wailing Wall. It was abandoned. “The soldiers have withdrawn,” told the officer in charge. “The violence is over.” The circle of friends stood up and embraced each other. Soldiers came laughing and crying towards us, shook our hands, and hit us on the shoulder and offered cigarettes (which nobody wanted.) Something special had happened and we all new we had something to do with it. “Really, silence helps against violence.” ROB SCHRAMA Article in: TM Magazine march 2001 In the autumn of the year 2000 Rob Schrama was a guest at the Academy of Jerusalem, an organization of enlightened spirits from the whole world who offer solutions for an undivided, peaceful coexisting Jerusalem as capital for Palestine as well as Israel. Both illustrations show a vision of the future for this city by the founder of the Academy of Jerusalem: Dr. Jitschak Hayut-Man. You can find more information on this website: Dr. Jitschak Hayut-Man : www. thehope.org
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