Peace in the Middle East

A website which outlines some interesting information:
http://www.usip.org/topics/lebanon_israel.html

A link:
http://info.bahai.org/article-1-7-2-1.html

A teacher's resource:
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/eyetoeye/teachers/index.html

website sent to me by my sister-in-law:
(The website is changed on a regular basis. Previously it had an image of young girls writing messages on the bombs which would be sent into Lebanon. As an educator, a mother and a human being, I am horrified.)
http://fromisraeltolebanon.info/

Story posted 6 hours ago about protests against Israel:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wprotest0805/BNStory/Front

Some friends of ours were in Haifa between July 17-25, on Pilgrimage to the Holy Shrines on Mount Carmel...other friends are living there--in the eye of the storm.

A Jewish Prayer for Peace:

Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, that we may walk the paths of the most high.
And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares, and our spears into pruning hooks.
Nations shall not lift up sword against nation - neither shall they learn war any more.
And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

Our prayers are for all of these people--the victims, and the perpetrators on all sides of the conflict.

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