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Pressing need for a united Holy Land

Would peace in the Holy Land foster peace in the entire Middle East and the world? A united Holy Land peace academy training new diplomats in nonviolent conflict resolution would facilitate the success of a new generation of peacemakers.

We have been patient long enough. We are not prepared to wait until hell freezes over for the United Nations to vote for a Palestinian state and implement the two state solution with Israel. The peace benefit to be derived from friendship based on forgiveness between people of differing religious cultures who belong to the same Holy Land and are blood brothers and sisters is indisputable.

May the nations of the world, in 2015, breathing the same air beneath the same sun and moon and stars, witness the pledge of a new generation of peacemakers who will be called the children of God: "We pledge allegiance to the flags of Israel and Palestine, two nations under the God of Abraham, conceived and established through Peace, with Peace and in Peace with liberty and justice for all."

George E. Bedingfield

Arlington Heights

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