Eileen fleming's Blog (8)

In his congratulatory message to President Obama upon being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Israeli President Shimon Peres stated:



"Very few leaders if at all were able to change the mood of the entire world in such a short while with such profound impact. You provided all of humanity with fresh hope, with intellectual determination, and a feeling that there is a Lord in heaven and believers on earth. Under your leadership, peace became a real and original agenda. And from Jerusalem,… Continue

I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mourning dove

And old men with broken teeth stranded without love.



Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?



Come in, she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm...





"Where there is no vision, the people perish."-Proverbs 29:18 - King James Version



The ancients understood that God spoke to them in their dreams and visions. The ancients told those… Continue

The Times They Are a'Changin'- FREE Vanunu Mordechai! Now!



Began on Face book on November 15, 2008 by an Italian with a vision for a Global V Day with his message to VMJC: Vanunu Mordechai John Crossman:





"For the little I can, [I will] try to move the conscience of the largest number of people possible, to try and break the chain of hatred that choke you and all the people of the area. Keep struggling. One day soon you will come to Rome to wipe away the ghosts… Continue

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.







In KEEP HOPE ALIVE, I began with Chapter One:



THE MORNING AFTER APRIL 4, 1968



"Peace for Israel means security, and we stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its… Continue

The Times They Are a'Changin'- FREE Vanunu Mordechai! Now! Began on Face book on November 15, 2008 by an Italian with a vision for a Global V Day with his message to VMJC: Vanunu Mordechai John Crossman:





"For the little I can, [I will] try to move the conscience of the largest number of people possible, to try and break the chain of hatred that choke you and all the people of the area. Keep struggling. One day soon you will come to Rome to wipe away the ghosts of the… Continue

I IMAGINE something similar to this letter accompanying a pair of my shoes.



December 17, 2008





The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500





Dear President George W. Bush,







As a NONVIOLENT person deeply anchored to what Jesus taught, I would never throw anything at you or any other.







These silver slippers are sent as a gift of remembrance of that little child of Bethlehem… Continue

Shministim means “twelfth-graders” in Hebrew and military service is mandatory upon graduation from Israeli high school.



The Shministim are Israeli youth of conscience who refuse to serve in the Israeli Army because it is the force that enforces Israel’s 40+-year occupation of indigenous Palestinians.



The first Shministim letter was sent to Prime Minister Golda Meir. In 2008 alone, one hundred youth have signed the following letter, which cost them a jail term in an… Continue

On Armistice Day, 1948 General Omar Nelson Bradley warned, "We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living."





About 2,000 years ago, when Christ was about 33, he hiked up a hill and sat down under an olive… Continue