Transcript How does this proposal relate to other Middle East

My aim is to serve Israel and the Palestinians to a turn
around in their relationship: animo + content
Make a turn around in your
relationship finally
Peace will come
…why not nów!
As a catalyst for this proposal: the possibility of much more (financial) help from the world when
parties cooperate
Abraham de Kruijf, [email protected], mob. +31 622 529 861, +972 54 996 1363, www.mijneu.eu
Way of negotiating, Abraham de Kruijf
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”
What does acknowledgement mean to Israel (texts selected by AdK)
- “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 is our land since 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?
“Peace will come, why not now” - November 2010 - Abraham de Kruijf
What does acknowledgement mean to Palestinians (texts selected by AdK)
- 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 (there is some improvement now), Gaza war
- (we have a historical / religious past with Israel as Palestinians/Filistinians)
- Admittance that Israel never listens to us
- Israel put around 6,000 Palestinians in jail including around 300 children and some persons held without
charges (UN Report dated 20110413)
- 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?”
- To end with a suggestion and to add on the phrase that Arabs would want to drive Jews into the sea …
well, maybe later … to swim together on a nice day ….
“Peace will come, why not now” - November 2010 - Abraham de Kruijf
Availability of
concrete and
workable
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
(From the site of Mohammed Dajani)
• 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.
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Declared stop fighting and firing rockets, with Israel as well as with Fatah.
bank (alfabethical), do not want an etnocracy. As soon as possible take the Wall away.
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Emphasizes 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. Invites Israel to liberate out of free
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).
Recognition of injures. Compensating of damage. All to use SULHA
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On Jerusalem: SHARE, instead of DIVIDE: 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 a basical form and
On Jerusalem
structure? To build a monument together? In 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: SHARE, instead of DIVIDE. (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
the hands of private companies nor being used for
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nations nor states. We refer to “global societal
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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
Israeli
Settlements
international law. Create a for both workableOn
as well
as respectable
solution.
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On Palestinian Refugees ): 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 to On
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 ofOn
a Refugees
and Settlements
Committee
of the two states. Stimulated by
Settlements
and Refugees,
in connection
“obliged forgiveness and reconciliation”: more financial help from the world if all continue to cooperate.
Design (first) 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
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the States are signals that Jews and Palestinians
Forgive and Reconcile. UN may offer a Peace keeping
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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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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