Currently, there is an asymmetry between Israel's quest for peace, safety and security as a Jewish state and varying degrees of Muslim rejectionism. Israel's goal is full acceptance of its existence, security, safety as a State and respect for its right to sovereignty as a Jewish State. Israel seeks the kind of normal relationships that prevail between the US and Canada, and between the EU countries. No Muslim country, including those which are Israel’s neighbors, promotes education for peace with Israel, based on mutual respect between countries and their populations. Within the Islamic world, there is a spectrum of positions ranging from acceptance of a cold peace to a state of cease fire to encouraging genocidal terror and genocide...
…The failure to end Incitement and Hate Language and to promote peace based on mutual respect between the Arab and wider Islamic world and Israel and world Jewry is the core problem underlying the so-called Mid East conflict.
….If there will be economic peace and formal agreements on the so-called core issues — (Borders, Security, Refugees, Settlements, Jerusalem and Water), past evidence suggests that peace will not be sustainable without dealing with the real core issue: an end to Hate Language and Incitement and promotion of positive measures of respect and dignity for all. In any case without an end to Hate Language and Incitement, it will not be possible to reach agreements on the above. If, in coming years, there will be an end to Hate Language and Incitement, even without an agreement now The possibility remains there will be a stronger environment for a more sustainable win-win agreements...
Promoting positive messages, Respect for Life (R4L) and Human Dignity (HD) and Live and Let Live (L&LL) are central to a culture of peace. Positive Deviance—imitating the best, not the worst - will augment the campaign against incitement. Such a commitment means the need to upgrade current commercial and economic exchanges and agreements –i.e. "economic peace", into a broader vision of promoting a culture of peace that gives priority to regional win-win strategies for Water for Life (W4L), regional approaches to disaster prevention and response, and promotion of sustainable strategies for regional development.
…..The lesson of the past decades is that leaders say what they mean and mean what they say to their people, and that these messages shape norms and expectations which themselves define the boundaries of what the leaders themselves can or cannot do. It is what the leaders do to end Incitement and Hate Language in all forms, in the media, texts, religious places of worship, street signs and road maps, and diplomatic statements -- and not what they say in closed meetings to other diplomats -- that has to be the measure of action. Equally important is what they do to promote positive messages of peace, respect for life and human dignity, and live and let live. State sanctioned Hate Language and Incitement increases risk for genocidal terror and violence. Now, the situation has been made worse by internet incitement.
An end to Incitement and Hate Language is an absolute precondition for any agreement. Without it, there may never be any sustainable agreement. The negotiations will either succeed, or fail in producing the first steps towards a sustainable agreement or produce some kind of interim stalemate without war, terror, or violence. The bottom line measure of success or failure is the number of terror episodes and their victims. The airwaves TV screens and internet are now Israel’s major battlefront.
The failure of negotiators and mediators to recognize the enduring impacts of intergenerational transmission of hatred on the young is the most astounding fact concerning the Mideast conflict. What is even more astounding is the failure to take action to counter this intergenerational hatred. We propose region-wide strategies for intervention to prevent Hate Language and Incitement, based on public health models of predict and prevent. These strategies are based on epidemiologic surveillance for the warning signs of genocidal Jihadist terror and conflict. These strategies can be used to trigger interventions grounded in international laws to prevent and punish incitement to genocide.
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