Tuesday, January 13, 2009

News at Eleven: As much as they dreamed of peace,

both [Mahmoud] Darwish and [Yehuda] Amichai rejected the sterile language of the peace treaty, playing with the paper-white terms of conventions and constitutions, converting them into something touchable and everyday. In Wildpeace, Amichai's vision of peace is not the technical "peace of a cease-fire", but a living thing:

"Let it come
like wildflowers
suddenly, because the field
must have it: wildpeace."

from The Guardian: Amichai to Darwish: Palestinian and Israeli writers on conflict

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