Deep listening was the theme of the week and shaped it.
I had moving conversations with Israelis who, in their hurt, feel above all that their pain and grief are not being recognized.
When we talk about the genocide that is currently happening, many feel that their identity as Israelis is being attacked and not seen.
It’s so hard to distinguish that we are speaking out that it is a corrupt government and not going against a Jewish state or Semitic identity.
At the same time, deep conversations with Palestinians – deep listening, rather than reacting to each other, is of course an essential key to even getting to the core of the hurt and its possible healing.
A picture is beginning to form for joint action in the Middle East.
I often think: if our parents and grandparents had been given the help to resist a fascist regime and not participate, what would the reality have been?
Fear shapes behavior everywhere. How do we get through to basic trust?
As I write this, the wild boars are running around me.
They are looking so hard for orientation!
Here too – can we really listen to who they are in terms of their nature? How does wild nature and domesticated nature come to a real new culture, a new departure?
What does real cooperation mean here?
It is a true adventure.
Without listening deeply to the nature of the different species and their true interaction, we will hardly overcome war and its power.
Unity and diversity – what a mystery of life!
Foto: Christo Meierhöfer