A Key To The Door Of Peace

But no longer the only one needed. For the people now must also find the right keys to those doors for Iraq and the growing violence in Afganistan because of what we have allowed to happen.

The following was posted at the Alternet

Israel-Palestine: Reconciliation Is in Everyone's Interest

A new documentary that looks at the people most affected by the Israeli-Palestinian divide reminds us that lasting peace will come from popular movements, not political leaders.

There is a short video trailer of this documentary at the site, link in title above.

Virtually everyone knows what the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will look like -- technically, at least. Still, it would take a healthy dose of political courage and a pile of luck for significant progress to occur anytime soon. The official charter of Palestine's elected leadership includes portions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, while Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, recently appointed an anti-Arab racist with genocidal fantasies as his deputy prime minister. The Road Map is stalled and, governmentally speaking, the peace process has flatlined. But then little, if any, progress was ever born in government anyway.

Into this apparently hopeless situation comes Encounter Point, an award-winning feature film documenting the movements that bridge the Israeli-Palestinian divide on the ground, among the people most affected. Filmmakers Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha (cowriter and editor of Control Room) have trained a refreshingly sharp eye on the detail and meaning in their surroundings as well as in their subjects -- a regrettably rare trait in a political documentary. But the question of why art and politics have filed for a separation is a different story.

The rest of the Altenet posting is an interesting read and can be found HERE

A visit to the Encounter Point site gives you this quote:
If you lost your loved ones to violence...
If you spent tens years in prison...
If conflict drove you from your home...
Would you seek revenge?
Or struggle for peace?

At About the film it leads off with this:

Encounter Point is an 85-minute feature documentary film that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the conflict. Their journeys lead them to the unlikeliest places to confront hatred within their communities. The film explores what drives them and thousands of other like-minded civilians to overcome anger and grief to work for grassroots solutions. It is a film about the everyday leaders in our midst.

You can view a trailer of the film in two differant lenghts:
Quicktime 4min.
Quicktime 7min.
Windows Media Player 4min.
Windows Media Player 7min.

In the trailer, if you watch it, there's a young palestinian boy who speaks. We hear much about the differant fundamentalists schools, in that whole region of the World, that teach hatred. These kids don't need to be taught, they are growing up learning all about hatred with all the devestation and killings around them, on all sides. In Israel and Palestine it has been going on so long generations have the hatreds engrained in their souls, not just their minds!

That hatred is brought on mostly by the elder generation of extreme fundamentalist Right Wing radicals, that don't want the battles to end, for a veriaty of reasons mostly known only to them, but they most certainly are not of any righteous nature, it's what keeps many of them in Power!

They don't want any of this to end, on either side. It will have to come from the people who finally come together to beat down the hatreds and bring the peace wanted by the majorities!

When you visit the site you will find more about the film and the people involved.
I made the title The Key because what has been going on in the Israelli, Palestinian conflict still holds the opening but it is no longer the possible ending if peace can be brought to these two peoples.

What we have started, in the region, will be long lasting new hatreds, growing out of what already was, and is now possibly out of control.

What will be happening next is anybody's guess, but we can probably be sure something and more will happen, for now retaliations know no borders.

But also think of the little ones of Iraq, in the pictures we've all seen, if they've survived, what their World now looks like as they are growing up within it. Think about their growing hatred, not needed teaching, but coming from what is around their World now. Who will they lay the blame on, who will be the recipient of their hatreds that for some will be out of control!

There are now more keys needed to bring about Peace, to open the doors of, and can only be found within the people, all of us from all the regions, one by one, hopefully leading to Peace for All!

Maybe this film, above, and the other documentary's along with those working together now, around this world, can help us all find the way to beat down the few who yearn to destroy!