Aesthetic Peace
Take a census of each individual in the Israelite community by families… count all those fit for army service. (Numbers 1:2, 3) שאו את ראש כל עדת בני ישראל למשפחתם כל יצא צבה בישראל תפקדו אתם
When Mel served in the IDF, we had hoped that our children
and grandchildren would live in our land at peace with all our neighbors
Our grandsons are now in the army: We were at Yishai’s
graduation as an army medic. Or serves in
intelligence in a Negev desert base. Our granddaughter’s husband Moshe carried a Torah with an IDF mission at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial.
Netanyahu made it clear in his address to the US Congress that peace can only come when the Arabs accept a Jewish State in their midst.
However, all peace processes from Oslo to Obama are doomed
to failure because the conflict is not political but aesthetic and religious.
At his Aesthetic Peace exhibition in Prague, Mel explains to
the ambassadors of Israel and USA about his peace plan derived from Islamic
art.
Behind them is a painting of a pattern from a Damascus
mosque superimposed on a map of the Islamic world in which Israel is a counter
pattern.
The continuously repeated geometric patterns in Islamic art are perceived by Arabs as spreading across North Africa and the Middle East.
They see Israel as a blemish that disrupts the pattern, an alien presence they try to eliminate through war, terrorism and political action.
Rug weavers from Islamic lands intentionally weave a patch
of dissimilar pattern to break the symmetry of their rugs.The continuously repeated geometric patterns in Islamic art are perceived by Arabs as spreading across North Africa and the Middle East.
They see Israel as a blemish that disrupts the pattern, an alien presence they try to eliminate through war, terrorism and political action.
Since only Allah creates perfection, they purposely disrupt
the uniform pattern to demonstrate that human creation is less than perfect.
Peace will come from a fresh metaphor in which the Arabs see Israel’s existence as Allah’s will
Perceiving Israel as the necessary counter-pattern in the overall pattern of the Islamic world will usher in an era of peace.
See Aesthetic Peace blog http://aestheticpeace.blogspot.comPeace will come from a fresh metaphor in which the Arabs see Israel’s existence as Allah’s will
Perceiving Israel as the necessary counter-pattern in the overall pattern of the Islamic world will usher in an era of peace.
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