Tuesday, January 20, 2009

STOP SHOOTING YOURSELF!

Someone smarted then me once said "If you not getting criticized for what you doing in the world, you are probably not doing something substantial". I've been getting lots of positive feedback from the song and some criticism thank G!d.
I thought Id share a responses that might further explain the meaning and the prayer behind the song.
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My song is a prayer, a plea, for a paradigm shift. It's not blaming or pointing fingers. It's asking for the same shift that I think you want...you wrote that "Im sure te Palestinians too want to read books and eat healthy food..." and thats exactly what I sang and pray for. My song did not cover the entirety of the situation and it didn't blame anyone. If you'd like to write that song and you though it would be heeling and open peoples hearts and minds, Yallah. Id honestly love to hear it.
My song is about loving the "other".
It's beyond the tit for tat, beyond the endless history, even beyond the current abhorrent predicament.
Its about loving the "other".
Of course you and I know there is no other...and that when we drop bombs on or shoot missiles at someone, we are really shooting at ourselves.
I addressed my song to Islamic fundamentalist (I dont like that word, I think they should be called Islamic distortionists) because to most, they would appear to be my "enemy".
Hamass web page calls for my eradication.
"""The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, killing the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." Off the Hamas web site taken from ~Sahih Muslim book 41, no. 6985
Thats directed at me friend.
Im a Jew.
Osama blew up huge buildings 2 hours from where I live.
I've had missiles fired at me by Hizballah. I hid under dumpsters as they exploded around me.
Yet In my song I wish them peace...
And when people hear that, it might, just might, give them permission to devilinize all the "others" in their lives.
And in my opinion, this is the type of medicine, the medicine of compassion for the other, that will one day lead to a REAL peace...and one day, I believe, we'll collectively be ready to do so.
And compassion for the other doesn't mean that you just sit on your hands and whistle while someone is coming to kill you. Its about what we are holding while we do our doings.
As soon as we become one sided and label ourselves as good and the other as bad we ourselves become energetic accomplices to very thing we are rebelling against!
We must do what we must do to make sure these atrocities desist! Invest your whole self! Work tirelessly to protect the children! All the children (we are all children). But what do we carry in our hearts as we do our doings? A vision of Compassion? Or Patriotism and Hatred for the "other"? All of our doings will be tainted and in vein if our sources aren't clean.
Let us pray to Hashem ("the name" ie."place name here") We should both be blessed to be brave enough to hold as many truths as possible, to see ourselves in eachother and have space in our hearts to pray for peace for all of us. May peace prevail, and may our personal actions and words be reflections of our greater will!
Im in!

4 Comments:

Blogger Maggie Thornton said...

Wonderful video. G-d bless you.

Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

5:42 PM  
Blogger Kristee said...

I really appreciate your sentiment. While it is true the Palestinians desire peace and tranquility like the rest of us...they can ONLY envision it after they destroy Israel and rid the world of Jews.

I think it is ok to call evil what it is- EVIL.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Peaceful Muslims tend to be the liberal ones who don't really use their holy book- the Koran as their guide for living. So, what does that say about Islam? Who are the ones distorting it?

Blessings,
Indy :)

8:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank You I Love You
You changed my life
I will never forget this
Foundation in love
Amen

11:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To Indy Jane, in reading you I wonder who is distorting things. Don't you realize you are playing the same game that your are condoning? Who made you the sole possessor of the truth? Would you be saying the same thing had you been born in a Palestinian family? What makes you so righteous? The christians that believe in the nonsense in their bible for example the evangelists also believe that al of Islam needs to be eradicated just because the later want to kill all jews. There is no end to religious madness. Get a real life and start doing something good rather then spread more hatred.

1:03 AM  

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