Take a census of each individual in the Israelite
community by families… count all those fit for army service. (Numbers
1:2, 3)
When Mel served in the IDF, we had hoped that our children
and grandchildren would live in our land at peace with our neighbors.
Our grandsons are now in the army: We were at Yishai’s
graduation as an army medic. Or serves in
military intelligence.
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.
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.
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. 