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How to deal with
the specific current within Islam that wants to see
peace as temporary, and ‘never’ gives up
How to deal with
the question whether Israel needs and wants peace
Peace will come
…why not nów!
[email protected], Abraham de Kruijf
Availability of
concrete and
practical
peace
scenario’s
Adhering to
(international)
law and justice
Make appeal on
evenworthiness
of every human
being
Carrot and
stick
mechanisms
for sustainable
peace
ECO (quality of relationship) diagram
Abraham de Kruijf, [email protected], January 2010
How to deal with
the specific current within Islam that wants to see peace as temporary, and ‘never’ gives up.
Answers:
1. There is a Sulha Middle East Reconciliation example (2009) which extends reconciliation and forgiveness in a very profound way to Sharia, so peace will be possible
2. Settle also the other issues in peace proposals and in Peace will come, why not now
3. “Back to the roots in Abraham/Ibrahim family”
4. The dependency of the world of oil is going to change, relationship with Arab countries
will change to interdependence
5. The World has other problems / challenges that urge us to cooperate, climate change,
/ drought, …
6. UN Peace keeping force
7. More financial help when parties cooperate, loss of help when no eagerness for peace,
as ‘carrot and stick’ mechanism
8. …
Answers:
How to deal with
the question whether Israel needs and wants peace
1. Peaceful coliving with partners is to be prefered, but Israel is not afraid to stand alone
2. Choose for positive way of living, also within the country
3. I met a father: “We do not want peace?! My son is in the army. I want him safe and home!”
4. Honor Bitahon Atzmi, the need for self-security
5. “Back to the roots in Abraham/Ibrahim family”
6. Not give in to prophecies about future war
7. The World has other challenges that urge us to cooperate, Climate Change, drought
8. More financial help when both cooperate, loss of help when no eagerness for peace, as ‘carrot
and stick’ mechanism
 This list is not very long. And Israel is used to being and feel totally abandoned (Dr Arad). Will
object (any) sanctions. Therefor it seems justifiable that Palestinians make a first step, and
explain this well, on which Israel acts positively, so that peoples feel beginning of hope
 But now Israel works via (slow) extension of settlements, which may create Palestinians despair
 Help/stimulate/reward Palestinians (Hamas, PA/Fatah) , as well as Israel, to offer an open hand
HOW DOES THIS PROPOSAL RELATE TO OTHER MIDDLE
EAST INITIATIVES: THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN EXPLORED
• Arab Initiative (2002, 2007)
• Road map, proposed by the “quartet” (2003)
• Combination of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, the Oslo Accords, the
2003 Road Map, and the 2007 Annapolis understandings (2009)
• Quartet (2009)
• US President Obama (2009)
• EU Initiative (2009)
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Initiative (2009)
• Geneva initiative (2009)
• Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad Initiative (2009)
• IPCRI Initiative, Gerhon Baskin, 2009
• New era, new approaches, Walid Salem (2009)
• IDA Initiative (2009)
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This proposal presented (as NGO) to Palestininan Activists, Uzi Arad’s office (phone, fax and paper),
People who work in Community Projects, Leaders at the Palestinian Legislative Council, Director
and teachers Dar Al-Awad Primairy School in East-Jerusalem, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and
Palestine, Chairperson of Sulha and Sulhita, President Peres’ office (email, phonecalls and paper),
Hamas leaders (visits, email and paper), to young Israeli and Palestinian delegations, Dr. Saeb
Erekat personally, Community Projects “Volunteering for Peace” in Hebron, Jerusalem Peace
Makers, Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem who also want Peace with the Palestinians, to UN SG-office
(fax), Senator Mitchell’s Office (visit and email), UN Special Envoy in Jerusalem, Independent
Palestinian Politicians in PLC, Al Quds / Jerusalem University, US Representative at UN and in
Jerusalem, Embassy of Israel The Hague, Palestinian Delegation in The Hague, Prof. Mohammed
Dajani at Al Quds-University, US Embassy in The Hague, to one of the Dutch Government coalition
political parties (personally to a Director, this party has vice-prime-minister and minister of
Defense), Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jerusalem, PASSIA director, Bishops in Jerusalem, World
Council of Churches, Dutch Protestant Churches, and to high ranked EU-representatives. Sincerely:
it is being welcomed by all to whom I present and they help improve the presentation. But there
might be more faith and sense of urgence in all the people I meet …
Abraham de Kruijf, [email protected]
Abraham de Kruijf’s proposal / system for negotiating
Recursive reciprocity, central value: evenworthiness
“To come up for
your own interests”
solution, with a
choice for
quality of
cooperation
controverse
With for sustained peace:
“Obliged forgiveness and reconciliation”
“carrot & stick conditionality…”:
SANCTIONS:
more money if all cooperate, loss of
money if only one does not cooperate
To extend negotiating with
recursive reciprocity,
including a search to
deeper motives of “the
other”
Section for politicians and others:
how Jews see Arabs, and Arabs see
Jews, where they (may) agree on
“it is important to be able to stand in each other’s shoes, even
when it is only for a while”
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(Dis-)Appointments
History …. 
UN 
Israël 
Palestinians 
Israël 
Palestinians 
Israël 
Rabin/Arafat 
Fatah 
Hamas 
Gaza 
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DAY
Arabs, as seen by Jews
 Arabs always attacking Israel
 Arabs always want more (we gave them chances, they want liberation
of more people)
 Arabs are promoting terrorism
 Arabs are promoting hatred
 They do not respect us, “they stand on our toes”
 They want to destroy Israel and our people
 Suicide attacks
 Less rational, therefore less predictable
 Wanting to drive the Jews into the sea
 Collaborating with other Muslims against us
…
Jews, as seen by Arabs
 Occupying Arab land
 Colonizing Arab land
 Always suppressing us
 They never execute UN-resolutions
 They are always being helped by US
 Make our life impossible, keep us in poverty
 Prohibit us to travel to dear places, family, friends, spritual
 They seem to need someone to react their grief on
 They are projecting Holocaust pain on us
 Jews are always “crying that Arabs are so bad to them”
 They seem so convinced of themselves
…
What does acknowledgement mean to Israel
- “We are always alone. …. No one is in our shoes”. Uzi Arad, National Security Adviser.
- Recognition of Bitahon Atzmi = the most important NEED for Self-Security for our people
- UN-resolutions threaten our self-security
- We have a history of thousands of years, generations after generations, of being suppressed,
suffering insecurity, expelled, and worse …
- To not longer be victim, to be able to move from that. We have been chased by so many nations.
- This was our land for so many years, and we have been exiled and suffered. Being killed, chased, depressed. Our religion was not accepted, they tried to erase this religion, we were not allowed to be.
- People are always jealous on who we are, and accuse us for their problems.
- During World War II the nazi’s tried to finish all the Jews in the world, many European countries let it
happen. Our feeling is that only England and the United States helped us.
- All we wanted is a safe place to live and we feel that wé are the only one that can protect us.
- All our neighbors still want to kill us. Our existence feels always to be in risk.
- We believe In trying to be morally, that is who we are. We have a moral culture. (That calls on critism
from others, they project) But we came to a place where all the world sees us as the bad one, and
they don’t see that we have no choice and are desperate of trying, nobody understands us.
- “What did I do that you do this to me?”
- All these experiences made us vulnerable, have hardened us: self-esteem, self-protection,
self-righteousness?
- “Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers
in the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 23:9)
- We have fear from the past (when much fear and pain you defend yourself proactively)
- Israel wants continued attention from the world. After Peace, maybe attacks restart?
What does acknowledgement mean to Palestinians
- Recognition of NAKBA, the process of Palestinian Disposession since 1948
- They control every aspect of our daily life!! In supermarkets even, by The Wall, …
- Gaza closure, Gaza war
- (we have a historical / religious past with Israel as Palestinians/Filistinians)
- Admittance that Israel never listens to us
- Israel put more than 11.000 Palestinians in jail
- To admit that Israel occupies our land and always invents something new
- Israel denies room to live for our children, women and men
- Through so much, and so many years of suppression and sometimes being desperate
 we sometimes made an over reaction (which is/was not right of us)
- The Sabra and Shatila massacre (1982), The Goldstein massacre in Hebron Mosque (1994), and
many more massacres
- Occupation / limitation of our Holy places
- Prohibit us to travel to our dear places, family, friends (check points, Wall)
- Over reaction / attack by Israel in Gaza war
- Israel projects Holocaust and other pain on us, where we have nothing to do with their past
- Israel never executes UN-resolutions
-This is our country, even it is not formally our state, we do live here... !
- “What did I do that you do this to me?”
-
Where Arabs and Jews (may) agree on:
 To begin with a suggestion for the former sheets and to add on the phrase:
Arabs: Wanting to drive Jews into the sea …
… to swim together on a nice day….
 Having a great desire for peace
 Desire for balance of power, without “love and peace”
 Happy children, safe country, no attacks, possibility to freely travel
 Liberation of prisoners if security is guaranteed
 No more challenges that make us both react with more or less violence
 As 18-year-old participant Jafar Qutob of Nablus explains, “I want to represent my people as they
are: humans who are eager to have a better life than the one they are living today, a peaceful life
without war, killing or any kind of violence. I will try to communicate and socialise with all
different people regardless of their religion or nationality, and especially with Israelis, who I
believe are humans like me". (Naazish YarKhan in Common Ground News Service 7sep09)
 Balancing our mutual criticism: no Holocaust in Palestinian schoolbooks, no Nakba in Israeli
schoolbooks …, or openness …
 Oneness, but also room for differences
 Financial means and work
 That what is called “Religious trust”
 That what we would need from “the other”:
 ……………….
 ……………….
Section on (a different kind of)
negotiation, cooperation and
forgiveness, through reconciliation
and forgiveness in also the Middle
East way: for and by ALL
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Justice: even in our families and with our friends and collegues we sometimes
do / meet injustice. What then when we expect Justice from “the enemy” /
international community?
Concerning forgiveness and reconciliation: both are in different forms and names present in
the various cultures / religions. We refer to the proposal. And below we present some points

Forgiveness, of all
… But a plea for mutual forgiveness for all. How we may be able to get out of these things is through
Forgiveness and Reconciliation. Forgiveness is not meant to talk away old sorrow, no, the sorrow is real.
But, one also wants to head for a new future. The Israeli asks forgiveness from the Palestinian for the
suppression, the Palestinian forgives the Israeli, the Palestinian asks forgiveness for the suicide attacks,
the Israeli forgives the Palestinian. The Jews ask for forgiveness for the fights (and even killings) they
have between themselves. The Christian asks forgiveness for the massacres in the crusades and asks
forgiveness that many “Christians” have killed fellow Christians. Muslims ask forgiveness that Muslims
have killed fellow Muslims, the militant Muslim asks forgiveness for the terrorism that is being practiced
in his name, et cetera et cetera. These few lines are not complete, and may even contain errors, and
(pardon me) people may not feel recognized in their suffering. And we did not even mention the
horrible Holocaust... But without further analysis and looking for the guilt: we all have our (sometimes
very bad) tendencies as humans, men, as well as women. We ask pardon and we impart pardon.
What does forgiveness mean to you?
• Sulha is the Arabic custom to stop a cycle of violence and bloodshed, the Arabic way of
reconciliation. This means returning the rights of the injured, and the dignity of all.
Now being offered for the first time for such a large conflict. (Think of the African Ubuntu).
• Slicha means: ‘Forgive me’, and is said by the offender. The offender is the one who takes the
initiative.
• The Jaha is the necessary, neutral, mediating party. The Jaha intervenes and arranges the Sulha.
The offender is willing to confess guilt, the process has to be prepared carefully. The maker of this
Peace proposal offers himself to play a role in the Jaha.
Note: there are also scenario’s where the offender does not say Slicha explicitely, but: a wooden pole,
and a large white linen sheet are presented by the Jaha. In which the offended as well as the offender
make knots. The white flag as symbol of forgiveness and protection of the injured parties.
Israel and Palestinians, as well as Palestinians together, may forgive and reconcile.
The five main Sulha-Slicha steps (summarized very shortly):
• Recognition of injures.
• Compensating damage
• After the offender says Slicha the offended party must forgive the ex-offender.
• The parties must publicly shake hands in order to declare that the violence is over.
• Sharing a meal: to show that the parties are welcome in each other’s homes and as a sign of peace.
Against Jewish State? This means that it appeals to permanence of suppression and
2nd-class citizenship and less than evenworthiness; there is a risk for ‘ethnocracy’.
See page with overview of ‘-cracies’.
Fór: evenworthiness (refer to interview) of all citizens: ecodemo-cracy
Evenworthiness: in Northern Ireland called Parity Of Esteem
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Day 1
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Declares ”We as Israel want to 'surrender' to basic law of coexisting with our neighbors, but we are not free from fear from what happened in the past. We want / need
100% guarantee for our people. And stop now with the maybe unconscious projection
of the Holocaust pain on the Palestinians.  Today we declare and practice from now
on evenworthy Arab and Jewish citizenship for all citizens in Gaza, Israel and Westbank (alfabethical), do not want an etnocracy. As soon as possible take the Wall away.
Day 1
12:00
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Hamas
Israel
Day 1
13:00
Hamas
Emphasize the sorrow of many of Hamas’ grass-roots: groups, small
groups, individuals. Announces thinking of making peace with the former
enemy. Liberates soldier Shalit. Because of evenworthiness of all humans
wants liberation of 1 prisoner. As investment in the future. Invite Israel to
liberate out of free will 450 prisoners more. “And Hamas announces to be
considering recognition of Israel....” And Fatah too, where still necessary.
Hamas offers trust to Israel.
(Starts to) opens Gaza borders, liberates out of free will many more
prisoner(s)….
Recognizes Israel in similar wordings as President Yasser Arafat on Sept. 9, 1993. This
is a major step, like Israel’s major steps at 11:00 and 12:00 hrs too.
To be followed by courageous continuation of peace proces and liberation of all
Here concentration on the CORE of the Day of Acknowledgement and Possibilities now
(THE NEXT SHEET CONTAINS ALL THE ACTIVITIES, ON EVERY HOUR OF THAT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DAY)
This is a short impression. Of course the wordings may be changed.
The core of this proposal is at this moment to show a route to bring parties on
equal level, where one is not a 'victim' of the other. I would suggest
Palestinians to take initiative and strength and 'not to wait for nobody'.
WHEN DOING THIS: PA, HAMAS AND ISRAEL COMPLY WITH HUMANE NEEDS AND WITH THE CALL OF THE G8, I
GUARANTEE MUCH MORE (FINANCIAL) HELP FROM THE WORLD.
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will 450 prisoners more. “And we announce to be considering recognition of
Israel....” And Fatah too, where necessary. Hamas offers trust to Israel.
Opens Gaza borders, liberates out of free will many more prisoner(s)….
Recognizes Israel in the same wordings as President Yasser Arafat on Sept. 9, 1993
This is a major step, like Israel’s major steps at 11:00 and 12:00 hrs too.
Use the Sulha flag and/or to say: ‘Slicha’ to eachother mutually (even though this is
originally a Hebrew word). Parties are talking. Analyzing the past too much is not easy
Say ‘Slicha’, as brothers. Create National Unity Government.May 14: President Abb
forms new cabinet. Hamas and Fatah restarted discussion on May 17. Probable outco
me: Joint Security Force in Gaza. But there are fights again. Talks to continue in July.
For continuity in the forgive and reconcile process the parties call the ‘Obliged’ Sulha
and Slicha. And invite Egypt, EU, Jordan, and US and UN as guards of this process. The
‘obligation’ creates the continuation mechanism for more help from the world (if all
parties cooperate) or fall of the help (if 1 or more of the four do not cooperate).
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On Jerusalem: Old Jerusalem may become a by Israel and Palestine shared city-state. This does (more or less)
work in Old Jerusalem. The 100% need for sharing Old Jerusalem has a religious background too. In this “Three Day
Peace Strategy” mutual coexistence of religious relations is an important element. Ishmail and Isaac are both
Abraham’s offspring. Where Abraham is said to have offered his son to God, the Dome of the Rock on the Temple
Mount, might be the first place to try to share in aOn
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form and structure? To build a monument together? In
Jerusalem
Hebron the Islamic and Jewish (alfabetically) Holy Places are close to each other, and separated strongly at the
same time too. Can a nice form be invented for Old Jerusalem? Respecting religious trust.
Secularly: can the legal and complex structure of Brussels as Belgian as well as ‘thin’ EU-capital serve as an
inspiration for Jerusalem?
Water: a strong outcry which is not in my hands to realize…: water provision nowhere in the world may ever be in
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responsibility” by the author of this Peace Strategy. Very many detailed studies are already available.
On Israeli Settlements 1): Clarify each other’s territories. Building / continuing settlements is not according to
On Israeli Settlements
international law. Create a for both workable as well as respectable solution.
On Palestinian Refugees 1): Right of Return, this Right is holy (like Israel’s return), Return is negotiable (ref.
www.wasatia.info). UN Resolution 194 / 1948: “The refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace
with their neighbors should be permitted toOn
do so
at the earliest
practicable date, and … compensation should be
Palestinian
Refugees
paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of damage of property which, under principles of
internal law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.”
ad 1): On Settlements as well as Refugees: We propose “Finally free movement, conducted with wisdom”. To be
practiced under the leadership of
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“obliged forgiveness and reconciliation”: more financial help from the world if all continue to cooperate.
Design a two states solution: the borders of both states to be clarified. Add a states cooperation covenant of Israel,
Palestine, Jordan, Egypt?, Syria?, Lebanon?, Iraq? (Iran?) But 'thinner' than a federation, think for instance of
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg (Benelux), but different and ‘thinner’. Specifically to work on wellbeing for the
peoples. Combining advantages of separate states and one state. With more help from the world when all Forgive
On the States
and Reconcile. UN may offer a Peace keeping force.
There are signals that Jews and Palestinians genetically are close. Is this relevant, and/or sufficiently scientifically
proven? Could there sooner or later be a closer cooperation of two states towards one. Even like the two
Germany’s? Where Germany may help?
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Result of studies: Development of the ‘Abrahamitic’ / Monotheistic Religions
And this is not especially for believers but for everyone…
That we may meet each other in Love and cooperation, wellbeing for all people.
Love and cooperation demand unity, but / and also room for differences.
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And an extra and welcome / necessary dimension is: “Love your enemy too”.
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Ref. the questionaire “Hagar said: The Living (one) who sees me”
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And: Ezechiel 47:22,23 for one state solution?
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Pentecostal churches
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The Beginning
Trust building needs guidance and leadership. And connecting generations.
A Dutch saying: trust comes by foot and leaves by horse …
One economical statement on the future: let economic results after peace go to the people
and not to merely to project developers.
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