Peace is the fruit of Justice
writing on a Palestinian T-shirt
Give us justice And we will reward you with Peace
graffiti on the wall in Bethlehem
Justice and onlyJustice
titles with the Palestine Liberation theology
Again: An Nu'man, an isolated village from the separation barrier. We're undecided before the front door, half in the garden. An elderly man stands in the shade of a tree, we recognize him late. We greet and ask if we are right here in Jawal Dirawi. "Yes, who lives here," is the answer. "We want to see him." "Ahlan wa Sahlan, he is with his pigeons. "And the man who introduces himself as Dr. Ibrahim Dirawi later, takes us deeper into the garden to the aviary, where Jamal Dirawi feeding the pigeons. I told the story elsewhere on.
And now comes the idea, which has often played a similar, if Justice and I were traveling together and at the same time as introducing the conversation was:
I am from South Africa Justice.
Justice? Justice? That's your name?
Yes, that's my name. And here is Gottfried from Germany. His name means "If God is peace."
Well, that's fantastic - justice and peace come to visit us! Ahlan wa Sahlan! Welcome. Come and sit down! Peace - please contact here.
But Justice First!
What?
I think that justice comes before peace, justice to settle first.
Good, very good, we talk about politics, nothing is easier than that if you have justice and peace to visit ...
Such was our idea and welcome in to Nu'man, as we are the blanket invitation Dirawis Jamal, who had hit us a few days earlier at the checkpoint, were followed. And something like this was often. The name "Justice" and the country of South Africa were always a simple conversation started. Justice is a big word in Palestine. Peace, however, is a run-down suspicious word that is too often been betrayed and abused. Only in the context of justice gives the word a meaning. And as we were of course already in the middle of the topic.
in Al Khadr, we both had the name Jaddal (fairness) and Salaam (Peace). Ismael, a very temperamental man from the City Council has renamed us. "Jaddal what is going on, our TV shows us bad news from South Africa? Or: "Salaam, I have not seen today early in the checkpoint
What is justice, was the question with which our conversation in Al Khadr had been continued. Justice, that is ... we began to stutter and looked for simple images.
If the arrangement for house demolition proves a mistake, I start
If the barrier is moved to the armistice lines of 1948 back
If the farmers freely to their fields may
If the Mayor is authorized to drive to the International Conference in the Netherlands, is Mayor of one, because it in fact a Jordanian passport and a visa from the Netherlands
If the mothers for their sick children in the Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem are allowed to bring added
And goes like that on. The list is long. All try to name some practical examples, not ideological formulas. The disabilities of the occupied Palestine are listed. If you are outside of any healthy sense of justice, they are contrary to international law, they are inconsistent with some Israeli law, court decisions are necessary, but the army annulled when security interests of the country to speak against them.
justice has become a utopia.
justice is also a name of God, in the sacred books of Jews, Christians and Muslims. Or just a feature of the rule of God that we wait so eagerly?
Return to Justice, the minister from South Africa. Here he is one of four volunteers in the team of the World Council of Churches, which performs this monitoring program in Israel / Palestine. We have become friends in recent weeks we have spent together in Bethlehem. A beautiful photo of me remains in memory, with the T-shirt, we've got both given. And with the book by Naim Ateek. And the warning that names are not just smoke and mirrors.
And this will be his name by which they will call him, "the Lord our righteousness "
The Bible, Jeremiah 23 6 verse
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