mag, i hate to break the news to you. i have traveled a little and in many
cultures, human life is not considered very highly.
  when ones head is in the sand  guess what is sticking up into the air.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magenta Raine
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 9/13/2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: WWII  (WAs: Re:      Re: 911 was    Tomorrow)

Even though it took a long time to end, the violence in n. Ireland has
gone
down considerably, I realize it's an uneasy peace, but nevertheless it's
a
big step.  It began when mothers started protesting the violence on both
sides.  I haven't heard of many incidents in a long time.

I truly believe that it begins with a few people saying, "We must end
this"
and it begins with meetings, and tea & cookies, or beer and hot dogs,
and it
means putting human life as sacred above all. We can gloss over --
what's it
called? -- oh yes, incidental deaths of civilians, or we can stand up
and
say, no, enough killing!

There are many like my sister working for reconciliation between
Israelis and
Palestinians, and by God, she was climbing over piles of rubble to get
into
Bethlehem, and stayed with Christian peace workers, and their Arab
friends
and neighbors. She told of Mennonites who will walk between people and
try to
calm a dispute, and they also ride buses looking for bombers, and
sometimes
they just bear witness with a video camera. She was there when the
Israelis
put a curfew on the town, and she learned what it was like to have the
town's
only doctor get shot in cold blood, and the only Arab medical clinic was
bombed to rubble.  And she was welcomed into a tent where all they had
to
offer her was some juice..........

More later.
mag


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