Peaceful Solutions
What if there is no negotiating?
This is one of a series of conversations with soul through meditative writing, as described in my earlier article posted in Above the Clamour, “Meditative Writing.”
Me:
On October 27th, Dominique de Villepin, diplomat and former French Prime Minister, was interviewed by Apolline de Malherbe on France Inter Radio. In the interview he seemed to say a political solution was no longer possible (while later including a political facet in his solutions) because both Hamas and the far-right Israeli government are absolutist and unwilling to compromise.
That reminded me of the far right in the US.
What to do when there is no compromise with factions causing problems? Obviously these are people who to some degree refuse to accept the changes of the new energies of the age just beginning, although I’m not sure you can say that when the argument is land and it reaches back a couple of thousand years.
Soul:
From our point of view, the angle of the spiritual, there is no difference of course between the two sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Divide and rule” has often been the motto of those who wish to conquer and wield power over others, and so these flames have been fanned throughout the age (the 2,000-year Piscean Age) just passed and entering the new one.
As a teacher I am bound to point out that we all peacefully coexisted two thousand years ago under the Roman yoke as we had a common enemy who limited our freedom and had a chokehold on economic activity.
And then many Jews fled when the resistance failed.
Other forces have sought to control the land, religious currents came and went, and history has shaped attitudes and entrenched hard feelings.
I have learned that “live and let live” is the way to peace. However, current conditions do not allow that to take place. As you say, feelings and positions have hardened to the point where intermingling will only cause conflict.
And so help has to come both from outside and within.
Outside, from those who are creating the outward circumstances to isolate the spread of violence. This is the political part.
And inwardly, by being prepared to acknowledge that peace is the birthright of all on the planet.
It is the light workers who make this possible, and so we beseech all those who are willing to tune into a vibration of peace in their daily quiet moments and not to allow themselves to be dragged into arguments or harshness, for this only fuels conflict rather than stemming it.
Hope is a structure of peace. It is a kind of beacon on the hill to which all may turn their gaze, and a destination on the horizon, a landmark that burns brightly until all have found their destination, their destiny, which is to live in peaceful coexistence.
May that light burn brightly within so that the beacon remains visible to all.
