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- Moshe Dayan's widow: Israel doesn't know how to make peace - Haaretz.com
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- Forty Rules’ links Northampton housewife, Sufi mystic - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
- USM professor presents research - Hattiesburg American
| Moshe Dayan's widow: Israel doesn't know how to make peace - Haaretz.com Posted: 28 Feb 2010 06:26 AM PST
Ruth Dayan, are you proud to be an Israeli? Are you ashamed?
It depends. I'm proud to be an Israeli on a limited basis. Every person has his own inner Israeli. What is your Israel? My Israel is the country, the landscape I see when I travel from north to south. The mountains, the ocean - just like it was back then. For a moment I even enjoy myself. I remember when we would pick anemones of various colors in the hills that surround Nahalal. I'm from Jerusalem, and there they had red anemones. I miss the old Israel, when there were still ideals, when we settled the land. And we expelled? We didn't expel. During my childhood, we didn't expel. We bought those tracts of land. Since then, however, many things have happened and today Israel is not the same. It's cliche to talk about how we're in a state of occupation and we're trying to occupy more and more. I'm at that age where I don't even talk about peace anymore. We don't know how to make peace. We go from war to war and this will never end. Whose fault is it? Ours, mainly. Are we, with all our power, incapable of taking a step? Moshe Dayan was there when this occupation started. No. The occupation was the only remaining option. Nothing else could have been done. Moshe was the one who actually led the policy of building bridges. Perhaps this perpetuated the occupation? That could be. I don't think it did. Even Arafat, the man who would kiss me when we met, told me he admired Moshe. Even the Jordanian chief of staff told me in 1948: "What a pleasure it is having your husband as an enemy." His behavior toward the Arabs was positive even after the Six-Day War. He would travel alone to Nablus; he liked being with them. He had a dialogue with them. Today, who talks with them? For the current government, peace is just a word. Have you lost hope for peace? I think Zionism has finished its work. I've endured many wars and I can't ignore the fact that they didn't want us. When I go to the territories, I don't even bother instilling hope in them. Out of courtesy, I tell them that I hope something will change, but the deterioration is just awful. Particularly the fence. This is something I can't tolerate. People say it stopped terrorism. Oh, please. "It stopped terrorism." Nothing will be able to stop terrorism except dialogue. Shimon Peres admired Dayan. What was Dayan's attitude toward Peres? Moshe didn't admire anybody. Maybe Ben-Gurion. He was a lone wolf. What is Peres' contribution to peace? I think he can still contribute a lot. Though a president doesn't have to intervene, he must intervene. He must make an impact, even on the people. The people are dispersed across a number of different viewpoints and groups and even religions within our religion. My grandfather graduated from the Sorbonne, my mother was a secular woman, and it's not like I hear anybody speaking to me from behind the clouds. Are you Jewish? I'm just an Israeli. It was a great honor to be Israeli, even when I was still a Jewish Palestinian during my childhood in London. I'm the first daughter of graduates of the Herzliya Gymnasium after Yehudi Menuhin was the first son. In London, I went to pray with the gentile girls. What did you think would be here? We lived the moment. In Nahalal, 17 children were killed during the War of Independence. We only thought about today and nothing else. Two states or one? There was a time when I thought one state for two peoples. Now I see that we have to have two states because we really are different and it would be best if everyone takes care of his own business. We're a mob that can't even get along internally. So we're going to get along with them? Is there a politician you admire today who sparks hope in you? Avishay [Braverman, a Labor MK and minority affairs minister]. No one is like him. I was impressed by his work at Ben-Gurion University. He can very well be prime minister, and he wants to be. What would you do if you were prime minister? Just like how we started. Like when we met with [Jordanian King] Abdullah and when [Yitzhak] Rabin tried. Rabin could have delivered peace. So far only Likud has made peace. Let's have Likud. Let's have whoever. Currently I'm in a trance from Avinadav Begin. He says that there are no Jews, there are no Muslims. This is the foundation. This I really like. The more I read this book, the more floored I am. He is very Beginesque, just like his father and grandfather. He believes in something. He doesn't go to Bil'in just to be seen there. He goes there because he believes in it. I want to read you a passage from his book: "Do we need words to observe the developing buds, to observe our children, to observe the droplets of dew that sparkle in the morning sun? How are we to love if the word love is nothing but a tool used to tighten our grip on our most dear?" Moshe Dayan always used to say I was a romantic. In letters he wrote to me from prison, he always wrote that one day we would reach a state of tranquillity and that I would sit nearby and knit for him. And I would wear my Scottish kilt. People always used to say I was an extreme leftist, but I love this country. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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| Forty Rules’ links Northampton housewife, Sufi mystic - Worcester Telegram & Gazette Posted: 28 Feb 2010 06:54 AM PST
"The Forty Rules of Love" By Elif Shafak (Viking, $25.95) Before he became a world-famous poet and Sufi mystic, a religious scholar named Jalal ad-Din Rumi struggled with a feeling of inexplicable emptiness. Despite his thousands of admirers and disciples, Rumi felt something was missing in his life. A wandering dervish called Shams of Tabriz came as the answer to Rumi's prayers. The pair were kindred spirits and intellectual equals who reveled in discussing and debating matters of God, man and divine love. Their friendship, in 13th-century Anatolia, transformed Rumi. The tale of their fated meeting, spiritual companionship and tragic parting is beautifully recounted in the new novel "The Forty Rules of Love," by Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Their saga unfolds in a manuscript being read by Ella, an unhappy American housewife who recently started working for a literary agency. Shafak goes back and forth — from present-day Northampton, Mass., to Konya, Turkey, in the mid-1200s. Shafak draws on facts from Rumi and Shams' biographies and brings them to life with deft storytelling. The 40 rules in the title refer to a list of principles that Shafak's rendition of Shams compiled while roaming the Earth. They include gems like: "What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. … " The Sufi perspective on Islam — and how drastically it differs from that of fundamentalists — is a major theme. At one point, a judge scolds Shams for his "complicated" view of life, saying: "Human beings are simple creatures with simple needs. It falls upon the leaders to see to their needs and make sure they do not go astray. That requires applying the sharia (Islamic law) to perfection." Shams, in typical fashion, responds: "The sharia is like a candle. It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?" While the historical story line is thoroughly engrossing, the same cannot be said for sections of the book dealing with Ella. Her character and those of her family seem cliché and their dialogue stilted. Shafak, whose previous works include "The Bastard of Istanbul," could have done without the modern subplot and the book would have been stronger for it. Nevertheless, "The Forty Rules of Love" is a captivating and wise book.
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| USM professor presents research - Hattiesburg American Posted: 28 Feb 2010 06:04 AM PST Morgan's conference presentations from 2009 include "Using Food to Teach Young Learners Geography and Cultural Diversity," National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Nov. 13-15, Atlanta; "Using Biographies for Young Learners to Teach Multiple Perspectives," International Assembly of NCSS annual conference, Nov. 13-15, Atlanta; "Teaching Multiple Perspectives with Children's Biographies," Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-6, Baton Rouge, La.. Morgan's areas of research and interest include social foundations of education; international education; curriculum and teaching; multicultural education; curriculum and teaching; social foundations of education; and social studies education. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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