DANCING WITH THE ENEMY

Israeli and Palestinian children being taught to dance together in Jaffa, Israel and in the process learning to co-exist in cooperation, admiration and mutual respect.

 Dancing with the Enemy may just be the long term solution to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict for it is the children who will eventually get fed up and impatient with their parents dogmas and prejudices and lead their parents out of the dark prison of fear, occupation and apartheid towards the light of freedom, social cooperation and altruism ~ and in the process break down the Separation Wall of mutual hatred and distrust: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

"Remember love. The only hope for any of us is peace. Violence begets violence. If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together: Get out there and get peace. Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like, Okay "

John Lennon to the press in July 1969 after the release of the Plastic Ono Band's single "Give Peace a Chance", as quoted in The Beatles : An Oral History by David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght (1998), p. 285

Separation Barrier being built by Israelis in Jerusalem 2007

 "Shall we dance" ~ nervously spoken from a shy Palestinian boy to an equally nervous young Israeli girl, is breaking down fear based separation walls that have existed in the Middle East for decades. Renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine returned to Jaffa to fulfill his lifelong dream of teaching dance to Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli children and the results were both amazing and illuminating.

Another indication that children will eventually get tired of being conditioned by their parents prejudices and beliefs and fully surrender to their evolutionary tendency to unite and cooperate with each other and inspire an older generation, including myself, in this universal movement towards love, peace and social cooperation ~ which just so happen to be the driving forces of evolution.

 

It appears that humanitarian cracks are already appearing within the Israeli military's iron rule over the Palestinians ~ Forty-three veterans of one of Israel’s most secretive military intelligence units ~ many of them still active reservists ~ have signed a public letter refusing to serve in operations involving the occupied Palestinian territories because of the widespread surveillance of innocent residents.

The signatories include officers, former instructors and senior NCOs from the country’s equivalent of America’s NSA or Britain’s GCHQ, known as Unit 8200 ~ or in Hebrew as Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim. See article ~ http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/25844-israeli-vets-refuse-to-serve-in-palestinian-territories

 

Now, let's watch those Palestinian and Israeli children Dancing with the Enemy in Jaffa and in the process going beneath their animosities and distrust and finding instead commonality, friendship, cooperation and mutual respect. See 5 minute YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDBkUTHykoQ

 

Why do many of my former clients after finding the child within themselves feel a need to be in service from a place of love and soul consciousness? Because deepest within each one of us is the urge to unite and cooperate with each other and not the need to control and destroy ~ and that includes combat veterans with PTSD whose only option, after service,  is often medication.

 

I see this phenomenon every day as a heart centered consultant with therapists or clients, veterans or non-veterans, helping them confront their childhood fears of love and connection and realize that those fears are mainly illusions and yet still controlling their lives. For example, see Marina overcoming and growing through her illusionary fear of aloneness and of being voiceless and embracing the joy beneath ~ YouTube session 5 ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12MoNnwPKg&feature=youtu.be

 

I also chose to show session #5 because Marina explains in the first 15 minutes how she was seemingly cloaked in fear after the session ~ where she met her emotionally trapped child within ~ afraid to be real and she completely surrendered to the fear when she went to bed, deeply cried and woke up in the morning completely alive and seeing through different eyes ~ much like Scrooge in the Christmas Carol waking up on Christmas morning and seeing through different eyes. As she explained, it was almost as if  the authentic child within her said ~ "Marina, you must first feel my fear and accept my pain in order to get to my deeper joy, intention, purpose and celebration."

 

The pull of the Unified Field of love and soul consciousness, deepest within us all, is like a soul magnet and once acknowledged and activated through gratefulness ~ incidents and events accelerate the transmutation process until true transformation finally occurs ~ the butterfly  emerges from its cocoon into another world of consciousness, cemented in altruism, social cooperation and the need to be in service.

AND DRUGS GET IN THE WAY OF THIS INTERNAL INTEGRATION PROCESS

Colonel Bart Billings is a military psychologist (retired after 34 years of military service) who started the first U.S. annual conference on Combat Stress more than 25 years ago. In all his years of practice with military and Vets diagnosed "PTSD" he has never once had to prescribe a mind-altering psychiatric drug and says the term PTSD is not a "mental illness" but simply a normal reaction to an abnormal event, or circumstances (combat/war) and that drugging our troops is not the solution.

Once you medicate, you all but terminate true integrative healing. Billings says that from 2005 to 2011, there has been a 700% increase in the use of medication in the service with a corresponding increase in suicides. Here's a recent video of Billings published on February 10, 2014. Eight minute YouTube video ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02HElsg8uI&list=PL79E9D68C92C00DAC&index=17

 

In an article I wrote last year entitled THE UNSAID ISSUE BEHIND VETERANS RISING SUICIDE RATE IS SHAME BASED GUILT, I share that recent studies appear to demonstrate that we pay a heavy price for killing and hating versus loving and cooperating with others. See article ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/23/unsaid-issue-behind-veterans-rising-suicide-rate-is-shame-based-guilt/

A new SFVA study strongly suggests that soldiers who experience killing experiences are twice as likely to attempt suicide ~ which strongly supports the reality of soul damage as a contributing factor for the rising rate of veteran’s suicide as well as the obvious need for a proven heart centered approach toward veteran rehabilitation. And get this, the Defense Department have found that pilots of drone aircraft, experiencing killing experiences, also experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft.

This important April 13, 2012 research study abstract was entitled ~ KILLING IN COMBAT MAY BE INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH SUICIDAL IDEATION ~ and the SFVA released the following abstract:

BACKGROUND:
The United States military has lost more troops to suicide than to combat for the second year in a row and better understanding combat-related risk factors for suicide is critical. We examined the association of killing and suicide among war veterans after accounting for PTSD, depression, and substance use disorders.

METHODS:
We utilized a cross-sectional, retrospective, nationally representative sample of Vietnam veterans from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS). In order to perform a more in depth analysis, we utilized a subsample of these data, the NVVRS Clinical Interview Sample (CIS), which is representative of 1.3 million veterans who were eligible for the clinical interview by virtue of living in proximity to an interview site, located within 28 standard metropolitan regions throughout the United States.

RESULTS:
Veterans who had higher killing experiences had twice the odds of suicidal ideation, compared to those with lower or no killing experiences, and substance use disorders were each associated with higher odds of suicidal ideation. Endorsement of suicide attempts was most strongly associated with PTSD.

CONCLUSIONS:
Killing experiences are not routinely examined when assessing suicide risk. Our findings have important implications for conducting suicide risk assessments in veterans of war. See Report:

These findings offer even more justification for heart centered workshops for combat veterans as well as other heart centered counseling. We’re talking about soul damage here and only a heart centered intervention can effectively treat that psychic despondency ~ as I have consistently demonstrated with combat veterans who have virtually all participated in killing experiences.

I have long felt and have now proved that PTSD is quite often Post Traumatic Heart Disorder for a common symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is the inability to give or receive love ~ which can obviously apply to non-veterans who have also suffered significant loss

You don’t need to see a therapist to understand this phenomenon, you don’t need to attend a workshop to see this magic in action ~ all you need to do is see and understand your life as a quest, versus a struggle, to realize that not only are we all loved but that we are all part of a loving plan in action and gratefulness is the key to this magic kingdom ~ God only reveals itself to a grateful heart. See my Article on the power of love ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/02/04/only-love-truly-heals/

We must eventually learn to dance with our enemies ~ for the Palestinian and Israeli children are telling us that our innate bonds of love, commonality and friendship are far greater than our need to destroy and hurt each other.

 

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/dancing-with-enemy.html


Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and heart centered spiritual counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations at allen@allenroland.com

Allen L Roland is also a lecturer and shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

 

ODE TO A DEAD PALESTINIAN CHILD

Palestinian Child killed by U.S. made Israeli Navy missile on Gaza beach

"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country." -  David Ben-Gurion (Polish born Israeli Statesman and Prime Minister (1948-53, 1955-63).

Ode to a dead Palestinian child

Yesterday you were playing with your cousins on this sandy Gaza beach.

You were playing soccer and you had just scored a goal with your makeshift cloth beach ball.

You knew there was danger on the beach but you could not resist the beach and the cool ocean breeze.

Somehow you could not understand the war around you.

You could not comprehend the hatred of the Zionists toward your Palestinian brothers and sisters.

You could not comprehend the cruelty of your occupation by

the Israelis.

You could not comprehend the whole concept of hatred and

apartheid for your heart was filled with love, joy and laughter.

You loved your mom and crippled Dad but could not quite understand their anguish about your safety.

Surely the Zionists would not want to bomb three little boys playing soccer on the beach.

Surely they would not be threatened by our laughter and joy.

Surely they would understand our innocent play.

Surely they would not bomb us.

Surely they would.

 

Perhaps American peace laureate Chris Hedges says it best ~ “The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel. It is not about achieving peace. The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battle field on a largely defenseless civilian population is the final phase in the decades long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians ~ it's not a war, it's murder."  See video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39314.htm 

 

And now listen to these angelic children voices as they honor their innocent slain brothers and sisters in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan ~ as well as Gaza and throughout the world with this profound requiem. ( 3 minute Video )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfN8j9r-jGQ

 

Rest in Peace, Palestinian child.

 

Allen L Roland, Ph.D

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/ode-to-dead-palestinian-child.html

 

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and heart centered spiritual counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations at allen@allenroland.com

 

Allen L Roland is also a lecturer and shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

 

 

GAZA / A LIVING HELL WITH NO ESCAPE

Sergey Ponomarev for N.Y Times / click on photo to enlarge

Relatives of a boy killed Thursday in explosions at a UN school sheltering Gaza residents grieving over his body at a hospital.

 With a death toll of over 800 dead and climbing daily, the photos from Gaza are like a Goya painting depicting the desperation and frenzy of Palestinians existing in a living hell with no apparent escape ~ surrounded by solders with their guns pointed ~ while complicit Israeli's watch on hilltops from beyond their Iron Dome and celebrate with their neighbors their barely concealed ethnic cleansing in triumphal glee. The Palestinians most certainly have the right to their self defense: Allen L Roland, Ph.D  

 

Francisco Goya's Third of May, 1808 / click on picture to enlarge

 Goya's masterpiece Third of May,1808 fully captures the desperation and despair of an entrapped Spanish people facing their eminent death at the hands of their brutal French occupiers. To fully understand the significance of Goya's classic painting of repression as well as its similarities today, please watch this magnificent 12 minute video ~ BBC The Private Life Of A Masterpiece - Goya's Third of May 1808 (2/4)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qu1iehzdDE

 

And when you watch this video, you will realize what that Spaniard is crying out to his French executioners ~ and it's the same cry the entrapped Palestinians are crying out to their brutal Israeli occupiers ~ WHY?

 

And it’s a question that the world must soon find an answer ~ for this long festering cancer of illegal repression and apartheid is spreading and must end soon before it's too late.

 

It is apparent that this in your face illegal Israeli land grab must be turned from a stumbling block into a stepping stone toward world peace before the Palestinians are completely eradicated ~ which appears to be the long term goal of the Israeli Zionists. See evidence of this death yard of angels: http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/gazas-birthplace-saints-deathyard-angels/24276

 

The recent invasion of Gaza testifies to the depraved and morally bankrupt character of the Zionist regime in Israel. The government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu represents an isolated and demoralized ruling class that has lost its head and has no answer to the crisis it confronts except disorientated and homicidal outbursts of violence and ethnic cleansing ~ which they laughingly call 'mowing the lawn'.

 

Even the son of a famous Zionist general, Miko Peled, shares that the current preoccupation of Israel with Iran is a smokescreen to cover up apartheid with Palestine, that the only law that applies to Palestinians is Israeli military law and that only a bottom up American demand for human rights and democracy can change or break the Israeli garrison apartheid state and its AIPAC supporters. See article: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/19/a-zionist-generals-son-shatters-the-myths/

 

This mass slaughter against a defenseless Palestinian population serves only to deepen the revulsion and hostility toward Zionism throughout the Middle East, around the world and among Jewish workers in Israel itself, What will this map look like in 2016 ~ particularly when on Friday, the US Senate voted 100-0 to support Israel's recent invasion of occupied Gaza.

 

Perhaps only poetry can adequately describe the living hell of occupied Palestine;

 

"Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician.

Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there.

Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16.

A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death.

A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you.

Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water.

And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.”  ~ Suheir Hammad

 

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/gaza-living-hell-with-no-escape.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and heart centered spiritual counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations at allen@allenroland.com

 

Allen L Roland is also a lecturer and shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

 

A ZIONIST GENERAL'S SON SHATTERS THE MYTHS

The U.S. condoned war zone of Gaza with omnipresent Israeli watchtower
    

The myth of Israel's right to Palestine as well as their illegal and brutal U.S. supported Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has finally been exposed and shattered by a Zionist Generals' son, Miko Peled ~ who reveals in his book that Israel's rabid Zionists are very similar to America's rabid neo-conservatives and that the only hope for the region depends on a bottom up American public outcry for human rights and democracy to replace the current Israel Garrison state of subjugation and apartheid: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

Innocent victim of U.S. condoned and military supported Apartheid in Gaza
  

On Wednesday, Gaza's health ministry, which keeps casualty figures, said 209 Palestinians had been killed and 1,560 were injured as the fighting continued for a ninth day. At least 39 children and 24 women were among the dead, officials said. In actuality, 80% of the killed and injured are civilians. Remember, there is no Israeli Iron Dome to protect Palestinian civilians and children ~ this is not war, it's genocide.

Below is a photograph of the anguished wail of a grieving father of one of the four young boys who was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Wednesday. The boys, all cousins and under the age of 12, had been playing soccer on the beach when the Israelis attack occurred. The man’s picture, by photographer Hosam Salem, was taken during the boys’ funeral.

The open sore of  man's brutal inhumanity to man continues unabated in Gaza despite the cries of many of the world's humanitarian leaders to end this Zionist and American sanctioned slaughter of occupied and oppressed civilians and their rightful defenders. This ongoing atrocity is paying a psychic toll on the world's conscience and can no longer go on unabated without severe consequences.

In December of 2013, I summarized my outraged feelings which also included a 4 minute video clip of former president Jimmy Carter commenting on Hard Ball regarding the truth about Israel. See article and video ~ http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/12/18/the-worlds-long-festering-truth-israel-is-an-illegal-garrison-state/

Here's Carter's Hardball 5 minute TV appearance by itself ~ and note how it is abruptly ended as Carter's talking points take effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvtC_qzHVM4&feature=player_embedded

But now we have an honest Israeli Jew, Miko Peled, the son of a Zionist General, telling the Real Truth about Israel and the ravages of unchecked Zionism.

Miko Peled was born in Jerusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel, and their violent torturing and persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would take their own lives.

Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with his own research, Miko Peled peals away the myths surrounding the Israel and Palestine situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel supporters will not be able to bear it. He reveals facts such as the original expelled Jews are not the ones returning, and they are not their descendants either, covers the double standards regarding the right of return, which doesn't apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful up until 1947 when Israel launched their illegal attacks.

Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and the state of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not difficult to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the fake misinformation given by the mainstream media, and the truths come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.

The last 20 minutes of this riveting 65 minute video are spontaneous questions and answers where Miko shares that the current preoccupation of Israel with Iran is a smokescreen to cover up apartheid with Palestine, that the only law that applies to Palestinians is Israeli military law and that only a bottom up American demand for human rights and democracy can change or break the Israeli garrison apartheid state and its AIPAC supporters.

See full 60 minute presentation and questions and answers video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ&feature=em-share_video_user

As Margaret Kimberley correctly writes in ICH ~ "Of all the partners in international crime in existence right now, the United States and Israel are the worst. Along with their less powerful cohorts like Saudi Arabia they have instigated occupations and carnage on a mass scale. Yet while one hand washes the other, it isn’t always clear who controls whom. Israel uses the political and economic muscle of its supporters to keep American politicians in line, but it also doesn’t have to work very hard to find a receptive ear in Washington."

In a time of universal deceit ~ telling the truth is a revolutionary act: George Orwell.

 

 

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-zionist-generals-son-shatters-myths.html


Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and heart centered spiritual counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations at allen@allenroland.com

 

Allen L Roland is also a lecturer and shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

 

THE WORLD'S LONG FESTERING TRUTH / ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL GARRISON STATE

The Universal Declaration of human rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly of the United Nations 65 years ago this week.

The solution to the Israel / Palestinian problem starts and ends, as it eventually did in South Africa, with the restoration of human rights. Now the world's attention rightfully turns to the Garrison State of Israel where apartheid still rules and 650,000 Israel settlers are illegally living in Palestine territory: Allen L Roland

Gaza from within the Garrison State

The Palestinian disintegration plot thickens as Gaza is recently flooded with sewage and conspiracies ~ which only Israel, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, and the military-controlled Egyptian government obviously condone and enjoy.

See report at: http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/11543#sthash.ISqMCbKK.oFdKOWVl.dpuf

Achin Vaniak, CalcuttaTelegraph, spelled out his impression of this Garrison State after visiting Jerusalem and the occupied territories a few years ago ~  "What has always intrigued me was how and why Israelis from top to bottom (with the exception of a small minority) could be so brutal, uncaring and unashamed about what their country was doing'. My visit gave me the answer. Israel is a garrison state with a garrison mentality. Israelis see themselves as victims because there are powerful forces (mainly internal but also external) that help create, sustain and embellish the myth about the perpetual victimhood of Israel and of the Jews. A state constructed on the principle that it alone provides a safe haven for Jews can only justify its brutality and oppression of resident non-Jews ~ that is, the Palestinians in the Occupied Territory and those having Israeli citizenship ~ on the grounds that they are actually or potentially the dangerous ‘enemy’ who must be controlled, subordinated and monitored…Israel has been accused of violating the Oslo Accords by repeatedly and illegally expanding its settlements in the occupied territories, as well as violating innumerable UN resolutions….It should now be obvious to anyone that those Oslo accords were basically Israel’s way of partially subcontracting the occupation to the Fatah-controlled Palestinian National Authority, and for giving itself time to carry out more land grabs in the OT, that is, create new “facts on the ground”…. Israel demands recognition from the very people whom it occupied and ethnically cleansed in 1948."  See article: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070405/asp/opinion/story_7605822.asp

Now there are over 650,000 illegal Israel settlers living in Palestinian territory but the world continues to turn a blind eye to Israel's blatant disregard for Human rights ~ where 35 laws privilege Jews over Palestinians and apartheid continues to rule.

On December 13th ~ Paul Jay, Real News, and Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, critically examined current proposals to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict . 20 minute must see video: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11162

But the tide of public awareness and economic revolt is rising, as it did in South Africa. In that regard, Nurreddin Sabir reports on Veterans News Now on recent suggested boycott action by the British Government that, "According to the Guardian newspaper, this is the first time the UK government has explicitly stated its position on settlements… in advice specifically directed at businesses. It is apparently part of a steadily stiffening position by the UK on settlements and their produce, an indication of frustration and anger at Israeli intransigence on its activities in the occupied Palestinian territories."  Read more ~ http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/12/13/britain-edges-towards-boycotting-israel/

This long festering truth has become an open global sore which must be lanced with the truth as well as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. For more information on how you can contribute to the boycott Israel campaign, visit the BDS Movement website here.

"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians" Nelson Mandela

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-worlds-long-festering-truth-israel.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and transformational counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations allen@allenroland.com

 

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net