None of us should be naive about the hard road ahead regarding President Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan, but neither should we be cynical. If there’s the slightest chance - and I believe there is - that Step 1 can be followed by Step 2, then all praise and credit to the team that made it happen. Much could fall apart, of course, and many details have yet to be worked out. But the fact that this is even the beginning of an end to this war is itself a giant feat.
Now, a plan having been established, we must be vigilant and mindful of our ultimate goal. The goal is not just the end of a war, but the establishment of true peace. And peace is not just the absence of war; war is the absence of peace. Positive peace, according to Martin Luther King, Jr., can only emerge from brotherhood and justice.
The architects of Trump’s Peace Plan - presumably Trump, Kushner and Witkoff - created an external architecture for ending the war. Building peace will be at least as hard, perhaps harder. It will necessitate a different kind of expertise, and an expanded set of skills. Rebuilding hearts is as difficult a work as rebuilding land. What will be necessary is an army of peace-builders, Arab and Jew, leading the way beyond the psychological and emotional damage to so many ravaged lives. It will take enlightened leaders among both peoples who can envision a time, and work assiduously towards it, when Jews and Arabs once again live side by side in peace. And this is sacred work. According to A Course in Miracles, “The holiest spot on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.”
Disconnection between our inner and our outer worlds is what created the systemic problems that beset our world today; only a politics that reconnects them will ultimately heal us. Addressing internal issues is the only way to address the level of cause. That’s true in the Middle East, and it’s true in the United States. When in the 2020 Democratic Presidential debates I spoke of the “dark psychic force of collectivized hatred” unleashed by the Trump phenomenon, many laughed. Anyone who is laughing now just isn’t looking. Collective hatred is more powerful than a million bombs, and bombs cannot destroy it. When politicians stuck in the mental mire of 20th century thinking refuse to recognize the significance of our inner lives, they might treat symptoms but they do not treat cause. When cause is not addressed, then symptoms will inevitably return.
The politics of the past will only take us so far in addressing the problems that beset us now. Whether in the Middle East or in the United States, we must deepen our political formulations to include - and take seriously - psychological, emotional and spiritual considerations. Israel of all places should know this. In Deuteronomy 16:20, it is written, “Justice, justice, thou shalt pursue.” God’s word spoken thousands of years ago is like a gong that sounds in the heavens now: Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. It has been a terrible thing - for Palestinians, obviously, but also for the Jewish people - that we ever let the words of Bibi Netanyahu take precedence over the words of the Lord our God.
These are sobering and painful times, and any bursts of light are appreciated. Will this plan work? Let’s pray. Does the President deserve praise? You know how I feel about him, but in this he does. So much suffering, so much death, so much trauma for so many people will hopefully now come to an end. But the hate will still be there, as all of us are well aware. Only love and forgiveness, and a huge amount of justice, will be powerful enough to cast it out.
Praying peace prevails!
I know that we all need to help each other change hatred and the thought of punishment and retribution in our hearts. The real reason why we need to stop hating is because we literally “carry the Karma” of the ones who did wrong. Here is the perfect prayer to help us all walk in this world without hatred, judgement and the enforcement of punishment which we all know belongs to God and the great spirit Wakan Tanka. Here it is use if you wish. We must have the trust in God and the universe to set things right— it does not belong to us. Do not be harsh on yourselves for feeling anger, even Jesus Christ felt anger. Pray though it, but only if you do so desire; it is your own sovereignty and free will to do so. Here is the prayer: Dear blessed holy Prince of the heavenly host archangel Michael defender of us from evil Please defend, protect and guide me and everyone we love especially President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today.
Assist all of us in each decision, great and small.
Cleanse all of us of darkness and negativity, and keep us safe from harm.
Lift the walls of doubt, fear and worries, filling all of us with strength, peace and divine wisdom.
Remind all of us of our worthiness as a spiritual being and of all of our soul’s constant connection with God. Amen.
Dear blessed holy Archangel Gabriel Strength of God,
Please open mine and President Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu today and everyone we love especially President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today hearts to messages of spiritual insight.
Help all of us to clearly express our truth with kindness and love.
Open all of us to creatively use this day in alignment with our Divine purpose.
Assist all of us in overcoming fear.
Fill all of us with strength, love and grace.
Guide all of us through changes in our lives.
Dear blessed holy Archangel Uriel
Please light the fires of illumination, and facilitate any necessary transformation and rebirth in me and President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today everyone we love especially President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and our world leaders today
Assist all of us in realizing our goals and aspirations.
Impart ideas and insights that light all of us in our ways today.
Guide all of us in unlimited possibilities, so all of us might be used by Divine will for the highest good of all.
Dear blessed holy Archangel Raphael
Please bring to me and President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today and everyone we love, especially President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today the Divine light of complete healing—physically, mentally and emotionally.
Assist all of us in opening our hearts to unlimited faith, so all of us may be restored to our spiritual wholeness.
Help all of us to activate our own healing and creative energies.
Shine healing grace on all humans, plants, and animals, and to our beautiful blessed and holy mother earth.
To all blessed holy Archangels whom you follow all 4 of the heavenly Princes to give me and everyone we love especially President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today to bring all of your blessings of divineness upon us for every moment of every day no matter what obstacles or challenges we face everyday together I will show our unconditional love from the inside and out—God gave to us as a gift from him thank you for everything you gave through feeling's insight and knowing.
Thank you God; I claim this, and I let go… I let go of all the pain I have encountered that was not deserved, and I let God deal with all the suffering that I and the world have encountered from others. I won’t judge I won’t be angry I let God handle all the karma they have accumulated for themselves and let universal law prevail. 🙏🏻😇👼❤️🩹❤️💕. I have cried many times making this prayer a I had to go into my heart. As Chris Hedges said even “…love was present, always, and it always prevails. It is seen everywhere, even in the door openings and entrances of the Nazi Death Camps and the gas chambers.” We see it also as Palestinian Mothers, fathers, and orphans cry over their dead and famine stricken relatives. It is time we show love and trust that God will take care of the rest. We may find restoration instead. Thank you for reading this. It shows our frustrations can come to an end, and we ask God to grant us peace within and without.