{"id":2798,"date":"2024-05-31T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2024-06-06T21:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:51:30","slug":"palestine-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/palestine-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is there an article about Palestine on a website about meditation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Thich Nhat Hanh once said: <em>&#8220;If you have to choose between Buddhism and Peace, then you must choose Peace.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meditation is the way of peace, and peace is the way of meditation. They are inseparable, and intertwined. Indeed, peace and meditation are One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to help bring peace to the humans who are suffering in Israel and Palestine, we must understand the historical roots of the conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Meditation Magazine&#8217;s Peace Summit in May of 2024, many peace activists spoke about truth and understanding as pre-requisites for reconciliation and peace:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As Ali Abu Awwad:<\/strong> \u201cThere is no peace without truth. We have to be truthful to ourselves and to the other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Einat Gerlitz:<\/strong> \u201cThe only way to move toward a solution is for all of us to start seeing where we&#8217;re at fault and to take responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To that end, I have spent the past few months digging through historical documents, to find the truth that lies somewhere in between the Israeli and Palestinian narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">archive.org<\/a>, you will find millions of historical records&#8230; thousands of which are relevant to the Israel-Palestine conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you want the clearest and least biased understanding of the conflict, you should examine these primary sources<\/strong>, rather than relying on the biased interpretations of influencers, commentators, authors, and even historians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dug through hundreds of newspapers, congressional speeches, police reports, magazines, and other records from the late 1800s and early 1900s (the beginning of the modern chapter of the Israel-Palestine conflict), and compiled this <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1sHOX3fcz-Mx9sIRVQKCAFOAIhyoxZ3z6?usp=drive_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">folder of historical documents<\/a> that I felt were most relevant to understanding the roots of the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope this is helpful for you in your search for truth and understanding, and I hope that it helps to bring peace in Israel and Palestine as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My analysis of the documents, as well as an idea of how we can help move toward peace, is laid out in the upcoming Peace Issue of Meditation Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d like to contribute to the conversation, please leave a kind and respectful comment below \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there an article about Palestine on a website about meditation? 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