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MasterPeace: A Formula For Lasting Peace In The Middle East, the World, And All Our Lives
In this groundbreaking and empowering book, award-winning journalist Cash Peters explores the source of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and offers, in the most engaging, accessible way, a range of principles that not only show how to resolve it but can help the rest of us achieve a state of peace in our own lives.
The origins of the fight between Arabs and Jews in Palestine started long before we were born. And yet here we are, centuries later, and it’s still going on. How come? Why can’t two sets of basically good, intelligent people swallow their differences and get along? How did they sink into this horrible quagmire in the first place? And what, realistically, would it take to bring a just and lasting peace to the Middle East?
Peters sets out with an open mind and heart to find the answers to questions that have puzzled him, and millions of others, for a lifetime. His conclusions suggest that politicians and others who've tried to bring peace to the Middle East over the years may have been going about it in totally the wrong way, which is why their efforts keep on failing.
To master peace and bring healing to a conflict requires an entirely new set of skills and understandings. 'Peace is not attainable solely by negotiation,' Peters writes. 'Just as cancer and various other diseases can’t be ‘cured’ by external treatments alone, the underlying causes of hostility between longstanding combatants will not be resolved by the two sides 'making peace.' That’s like wallpapering over mildew. Peace is not something you make. No amount of signed treaties, accords, summits, resolutions, or any other dextrous committee-room maneuvering you might come up with, especially if all they’re doing is shifting the same old pieces about the board, is ever, ever going to be enough to iron out the differences between strongly-held scripts.'
MasterPeace takes its cues from regional politics, history, religion, spirituality, philosophy, and metaphysics, bringing them together into an eye-opening navigation of the subject that makes it accessible to first-time students of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, but also to anyone who's willing to leave their preconceptions at the door and approach this subject in a whole new way. It's probably fair to say, there has never been a book like this before!
Cash Peters is a former journalist who has worked for the BBC, CNN, NPR, and Travel Channel. He is the author of many books, including 'A Little Book About Believing: the Transformative Healing Power of Faith, Love, and Surrender' and 'Why Your Life Matters.'
The origins of the fight between Arabs and Jews in Palestine started long before we were born. And yet here we are, centuries later, and it’s still going on. How come? Why can’t two sets of basically good, intelligent people swallow their differences and get along? How did they sink into this horrible quagmire in the first place? And what, realistically, would it take to bring a just and lasting peace to the Middle East?
Peters sets out with an open mind and heart to find the answers to questions that have puzzled him, and millions of others, for a lifetime. His conclusions suggest that politicians and others who've tried to bring peace to the Middle East over the years may have been going about it in totally the wrong way, which is why their efforts keep on failing.
To master peace and bring healing to a conflict requires an entirely new set of skills and understandings. 'Peace is not attainable solely by negotiation,' Peters writes. 'Just as cancer and various other diseases can’t be ‘cured’ by external treatments alone, the underlying causes of hostility between longstanding combatants will not be resolved by the two sides 'making peace.' That’s like wallpapering over mildew. Peace is not something you make. No amount of signed treaties, accords, summits, resolutions, or any other dextrous committee-room maneuvering you might come up with, especially if all they’re doing is shifting the same old pieces about the board, is ever, ever going to be enough to iron out the differences between strongly-held scripts.'
MasterPeace takes its cues from regional politics, history, religion, spirituality, philosophy, and metaphysics, bringing them together into an eye-opening navigation of the subject that makes it accessible to first-time students of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, but also to anyone who's willing to leave their preconceptions at the door and approach this subject in a whole new way. It's probably fair to say, there has never been a book like this before!
Cash Peters is a former journalist who has worked for the BBC, CNN, NPR, and Travel Channel. He is the author of many books, including 'A Little Book About Believing: the Transformative Healing Power of Faith, Love, and Surrender' and 'Why Your Life Matters.'
430 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2019
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