Solution to Israel-Palestine problem (for kids)

How can we dance during this Nakba (Catastrophe), this Holocaust? - What else can we do?

There can be only one final solution. - Oh, no, what is it? - We'll have a dance off...with bombs

a kids book about Israel & Palestine

Those thickheaded kids, why won't they understand? Here's a primer about the problem with a real solution EVERYONE will love (except those involved in the conflict).

Everyone's second favorite Christian scholar (if Bart Ehrman is Number 1) is a Harvard former Christian and current Muslim with a scholarly knowledge of Judaism and the major Abrahamic faiths (which are more numerous than the three we always hear about*) has just come out with A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine.

What do kids care? This "Arab" boy wants to die

on account of what Bibi is doing to Palestine.

Our men can't dance. Let's show them how!

Dr. Reza Aslan, Ph.D. (rezaaslan.com) is a professional scholar of religion. His new book (released March 19, 2024) has 4.2 out of 5 stars with 40 ratings. Did the kids judge it? Probably not, but it's a #1 Best Seller in Children's Middle Eastern History.

• AUDIO: Book for Kids (& You) to Think About Palestine & Israel (Letters & Politics)
• Int'l Court of Justice ruling ORDERS Israel to cease Rafah offensive. | But Israel don't care about NO court (KPFA)

I'm a Harvard trained scholar of religion

Kids, what is the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict"? (It's hard to find a fair word. It's not a war or conflict or anything with two groups on any kind of equal footing, so let's just call it a bloody mess as European invaders, following the history of the other great European nations that just go in and take someone's land and then hold up a Bible and say God is their real estate agent who gave it to them and somehow manage to say that with a straight face and get us all to argue about an "ancient" debate that has only been going on for 75 years).

What about a "two state solution," Dr. Aslan? Hell to the double no.

Was the God Jesus a Jew or a Christian?

Why is it happening? Is peace possible? When kids ask questions like these, are grownups prepared to answer?

This book was created to provide context for this conflict, open the door to conversation, and lay a path for understanding, peace, and compassion for our shared future. Core themes in this book:

Fortunately, American Christians are completely unbiased and looking for a fair solution for all.

• Acceptance,
• Courage,
• Empathy,
• History.

شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש

Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.

• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
• NOT IN OUR NAME! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Jewish soldiers confess: breakingthesilence.org.il
• Orthodox Religious Jews for Palestine (nkusa.org)
• شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
• Amnesty International
• American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org)
• American Veterans for Peace
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine (akidsco.com)
• *Yazidis, Samaritans, Philistines, Sufis, Sumerians, Bahais, Catholics, Bedouins, Ethiopians, Wahhabis, Turks, Coptics (Egyptians), Mesopotamians, Zoroastrians, and all the surviving groups who live or lived in and around ancient Palestine, Israel, and Judeah.
• Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org, LA 10:00 am, Letters & Politics, 5/30/24) with guest Dr. Reza Aslan (amazon.com); TRT World (video short); ForaTV; Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

John Lear: You can't handle the truth? (video)

John Lear (TLM); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

John Lear Tells All (Part 1 of 4)

(May 1, 2008) John Lear in a Project Camelot interview (projectcamelot.org/john_lear) from Las Vegas, April 2008. Now some may be asking why so many airlines collapsed that John Lear (therealjohnlear.com, thelivingmoon.com) worked for and why he got fired so many times. His excuse is simple:

• Newton is wrong: The truth about gravity

Pegasus (thelivingmoon.com)

I am not the brightest crayon in the box. I am extremely lazy. I have a smart mouth and a real poor f---ing attitude. John Lear is incorrigible and funloving, with a great sense of humor that has served him well over these many years.

This 2006 interview with John Lear remains a favorite. When he had considerably more time at his disposal than two years before, Lear piled his table high with books, diagrams, and research papers and sat down to tell "everything he knew."

With special emphasis on the Bob Lazar saga,there is coverage of the inconsistencies in some 911 theories and why, as a world-renowned pilot, he is uniquely qualified to judge what kind of planes, if any, hit the World Trade Center. (Answer: none. Lear explains why we know they were holograms).

The moon's gravity may be as much as 64% that of Earth's, so it could retain a very thin atmosphere. Ben Rich, the former director of Lockheed's skunk works, was an Israeli Mossad agent. The location of the "new Area 51," called Sandia, is deep in the Nevada desert. What really happened at Above Top Secret, an Internet forum, where he was attacked and which he has subsequently left. Much more is also covered.

There's nothing here about 2012 or "Planet X" -- both of which Lear dismisses. But he is entertaining and fascinating as he reports in detail. He reveals experiences and opinions and is someone who deserves to be respected and admired for his courage, character, and maverick commitment to revealing the truth.

• Contact Project Camelot's Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy at the e-mail: support@projectcamelot.org
• VIDEO: Wait, who cares about John Lear?

Brain Science: Conservatives are Scared

Ana Kasparian: Conservatives' Brains Make Them Scared
(Midweekpolitics) Ana Kasparian, co-host of "The Young Turks," talks about conservatives having bigger fear centers in their brains. What happens during commercial breaks at TYT and much more. The David Pakman Show is an internationally syndicated talk radio and television program.

Goenka interview: Insight Meditation

(Dhamma Podcasts) Lay insight-meditation teacher S.N. Goenka is interviewed while visiting the Vipassana Meditation Center in Belgium on August 10, 2002. This 19 minute video contians excerpts of his explanations. For more information about vipassana meditation see dhamma.org. Buddhist book and audio resources are available from pariyatti.com. May all beings be happy!

• More Dharma Podcasts: pariyatti.org/podcasts

Book Review: "Enlightenment for Idiots"

Reviewed by Karen Macklin (5/9/08) YOGA JOURNAL BLOG: SAMADHI & THE CITY

I first went to India when I was 22. I knew nothing about yoga, but I had a transformative experience nonetheless, complete with my first contact with saddhus, a visit to the temple where Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree, and a visit to the Ganges River to see the bodies [being cremated] on the ghats. My trip felt deeply spiritual...but, as a recent college grad in a tumultuous love affair with a guy I met while traveling, it also felt completely confusing, raw, and, at times, ridiculous.

So, when I heard about local writer and former Yoga Journal editor Anne Cushman's new book, Enlightenment for Idiots, I was excited to pick up a copy. The book, which she calls a cross between a spiritual journey and a dysfunctional romance, is about a San Franciscan writer and yogi who can't seem to practice in life what she practices on the mat. Her relationships are a mess, and she's financially broke and emotionally ungrounded.

Finally, she gets an assignment to go to India and write a book called Enlightenment for Idiots, for which she must hit all the big and small ashrams throughout the country. Like the trip I took at 22, hers is a wild journey during which she tries to find deeper meaning while simultaneously dealing with a completely unenlightened romantic situation and uncertain future.

While there is satire in Anne's story, there is also insight—and a lot of research. She actually visited all of these places in 1998 when researching a prior nonfiction book on spiritual sites and centers in India, From Here to Nirvana, and used these experiences as the basis for her main character's travels.

Anne's main interest lies not in some arbitrary idea of enlightenment but rather in how modern day life (specifically romantic life) and yogic ideals intersect. Or how they don't. She says that many yogic practices were designed for Eastern celibate men—not single, Western women.

She also says that our love lives are the most challenging places for us to act with mindfulness and employ yogic principles. As a Western yogini slowly navigating my way through a new relationship, I can relate!

• Enlightenmentforidiots.com
• Video interview with author