{"id":6258,"date":"2017-02-06T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:52:16","slug":"sarah-rosenbergs-speech-inauguration-womens-lobby-peace-security-knesset-30-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/sarah-rosenbergs-speech-inauguration-womens-lobby-peace-security-knesset-30-1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Rosenberg\u2019s speech at the Inauguration of the Women\u2019s Caucus for Peace and Security at the Knesset, 30.1.2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just heard the impassioned speech of the head my local council, and I chose to be here with you. The actual reasons are heart rendering: my son\u2019s voice calling out from his grave has caused me to act. I believe that women can make peace. If we don\u2019t fight among ourselves we can work towards peace. All of us are so tired of wars.<\/p>\n

I am very moved to be here today, in this very special place, with this special group of women who are involved with HOPE. Policy, security and peace are subjects that I\u2019m interested in but until today I supported these issues within my own small world. I formed an opinion only among my family members. My reasons for leaving this safe zone are unfortunately heart rendering. My name, my identity and the relationship with the organizers are due to my son’s murder. His voice shouts from his grave and it brought this to this point. I save my son, his image, his memory and his dreams.<\/p>\n

Malachi had so many dreams \u2013 dreams that any mother would be proud of. Malachi was a talented and successful young man with values.\u00a0 He was at the beginning of his journey and he thought he would be able to leave his impression on this world in many ways. One of his dreams was to successfully touch the internal spot within each of us \u2013 the spot where we understand how similar we are, where the same spark is lit in each of us. Malachi felt that our ability as a nation, as a society, to protect ourselves from external conflicts is dependent on our ability to maintain unity.\u00a0 He often spoke to me about the need for deep unity in order to sustain our nation. Malachi knew that unity and love are not effacing or giving up of values. Joining together through peace is not compromising but rather a mutual bonding that leads to wholeness.<\/p>\n

It is from this place that I come here wrapped in thoughts, ideas and words of unity. For some reason I feel that whenever people talk \u201clove and peace\u201d politics it sounds disconnected rather than down to earth.\u00a0 Despite this, whatever I considered saying comes from exactly that place.\u00a0 The more I thought about this I realized that if we could deal with political issues on this basis, then it is possible we could create a practical means to a better place.<\/p>\n

I once read about the Bono monkeys who are led by the females and are characterized by a low level of tension and by rich social ties. Their lives are based on tolerance and there is hardly any violence.<\/p>\n

The role of women is special in this journey.\u00a0 Maybe only women are able, in this complex reality, to give birth to calm and peace. Our wellbeing is tied with a thin thread of kindness and compassion. If we wouldn\u2019t fight so much among ourselves, we would have real places within to create peace with our neighbors.<\/p>\n

I come from the world of therapy. I am a family and couple therapist, a director of a treatment center and mostly I am a wife and a mother.<\/p>\n

In my work I want couples who come to see me to \u00a0know themselves better and to understand it is natural that there are differences between them. There is no need to think identically; one must learn to live with diversity.\u00a0 Whoever learns to live close to someone else will achieve a lot.\u00a0 From this analogy of family therapy I would like to mention two things.<\/p>\n