Published:
April 25, 2021
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CFJ member Rich Forer’s new book, Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of Israel Palestine, is available in paperback and digital at Amazon and other venues.
With its insight into the longstanding struggle between Israel and the Palestinian people, Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity focuses on the psycho-spiritual roots of suffering and conflict, commonly misinterpreted historical issues, and the humanity that lies at the heart of the tragedy.
The book tells the true story of a lifelong supporter of Israel who underwent a remarkable spiritual awakening in which he realized he was as much Muslim or Christian as Jew, and as much Palestinian as Israeli or American. Existential fear and confusion, the hallmarks of separate identities, were transformed into compassion and clarity and an unequivocal vision of the roots of suffering spontaneously arose.
Recognizing that endless conflict only leads to alienation from our true selves, Wake Up encourages readers to look at the documented history of Israel-Palestine and get in touch with how they view and interpret that history. It offers readers a path that leads to freedom from false beliefs, enemy images, and the illusion of identity to equal rights for all people and a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
Beit Ummar
In recent events, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Jenin and Nur Shams refugee camps to Al-Ain Camp in Nablus. Over 500 homes have been demolished under the pretext of achieving the goal of creating "a land without people." This act represents yet another chapter in the ongoing tragedy faced by the Palestinian people.
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Sixty years ago, the world stood on the brink of catastrophe. The colonial war in southeast Asia, which sawAmerican involvement begin under President Eisenhower, who sent arms shipments and “advisors” (1955), continued to escalate under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon toward a wrenching US defeat, roiling the American political scene. Shadowing the Vietnam War(1955-1975) on the international stage, the domestic US political landscape was riven by the civil rights movement (1953-1965), which was reaching a crucial turning point in its battle for a desegregated, democratic America.
