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• Queries from Afghanistan A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew Born in Palestine The Work of the Quaker UN Office • An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Religious Seeking Better Solutions Society of Friends en I look at the line-up of articles this month, I'm reminded that Truth is omplex. The best solutions to difficult problems take a major Editorial W:nvestment of time, funds, and ingenuity-not to mention goodwill- in Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publisher and Executive order to make a real difference. Months ago, when we were involved in the Editor), Robert Dockhorn (Senior Editor), Lisa preparation of an article on the impending war with Iraq, I'd already begun to Rand (Assistant Editor), Judith Brown (Poetry Editor), Ellen Michaud (Book Review Editor), J. Brent Bill correspond with Paul Barker. I knew he was a Quaker and also the country director (Assistant Book &view Editor), Joan Overman (&ok in Afghanistan for CARE International. What was it like, I wondered, for a Revuw Assistant}, Christine Rusch (Milestones committed Quaker to work on the ground in a country that had gone through the Editor), Julie Gochenour, Robert Marks, George Rubin, Scott Shrake {News Editors}, Kara Newell upheavals of the T aliban, the sheltering of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, and then (Columnist), Marjorie Schier (Copyeditor}, Teresa the U.S. bombing and subsequent change of government following 9/11? If ever our Jacob Engeman (Editorial Assistant), Courtney Elko, Alex Koppelman, Sarah Kire Sharpless (Interns) Peace Testimony were to be tested under difficult circumstances, it seemed to me that Production this would be it. So I invited Paul to write for us on how his Quaker values inform Barbara Benton (Art Director), Alia Podolsky the work he does and the life he leads-and to comment on how he believes the (Assistant An Director), Herb End (Web Manager) global community might help to achieve a better result in a society such as Advertising, Cira~lation, Development Afghanistan. He responded, in good Quaker fashion, with "Queries from Nagendran Gulendran (Advertising Manager), Nicole Hackel (Circulation Assistant), Melissa Afghanistan" (p. 6). Martin (Project and Database Manager), Lawrence I met Stanley Zarowin during my years ofwork in New York Yearly Meeting, Moore (Circulation and Marketing Manager), Gretta never suspecting the complexity of his origins. A Jew born in Palestine a decade before Stone (Development Coordinator), Kay Bacon, Ruthanna Hadley, Jennifer Lenik, Ruth Peterson the formation oflsrael, Stanley emigrated during his youth to the U.S. and eventually (Volunteers) became a Quaker and leader in New York Yearly Meeting. This past February he Administration returned to the land of his birth as part ofa pastoral visit for 26 Quaker leaders Marianne De Lange (Office Manager), Tom McPeak (Accounting Services) organized by Friends United Meeting. In the past, FRIENDS JoURNAL has received Board of Trustees criticism for its coverage of Middle East issues. Valid concerns have been raised that Barbara Andrews, TylaAnn Burger (Treasurer), our coverage has been more about the suffering of the Palestinians and peacemaking Katharine Oark, Linda Coffin, Karen Cromley, efforts in the West Bank and Gaza. Our focus is always "Quaker Thought and Life John Darnell, William Deutsch (Assistant Clerk), Mary Ann Downey, Walter Evans, Marsha Green Today," and it has been difficult to surface a Quaker perspective on the fear and pain (Recording Clerk), Dan Hewitt, Linda Houser, of the Israeli people. It is our belief that Stanley Zarowin's article, "A Visit to Israel by Linda Lyman, Larry Miller, Julian O'Reilley, a Quaker Jew Born in Palestine" (p.16), asks good questions and brings a more Ruth Peterson, Jonathan Tamez., Ann Trueblood Raper, Lynn Waddington, Elizabeth Years (Clerk), balanced perspective to considering the issues of this troubled land. He is willing to Anne-Marie Zilliacus explore the ambiguities and contradictions he encounters, and to offer both criticism FRJENDS j OURNAL (J$SN 0016-1322) was established and compassion in response to the people he met and the circumstances in which he in 1955 aS

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Features Departments 6 Queries from Afghanistan 2 Among Friends Paul Barker 4 Forum A CARE country director ponders the difficult issues ahead. 5 Viewpoint 10 The Work of QUNO in New York Weapons ofmass construction Jack T . Patterson and Lori Heninger 26 Witness The Quaker United Nations Office has its hands full Failure to disperse 12 Quaker House at the United 28 Reflection Nations Meetinghouse Lori Heninger 29 Books The world is at home in this house. 32 News 15 Jesus in Stillness and Love John Pitts Corry 34 Bulletin Board A trip to Galilee stimulated images ofjesus as a spiritual 36 Milestones awakener. 49 Classified 16 A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew Born in Palestine Stanley Zarowin Multiple loyalties accompanied him on this pastoral visit. 23 "Peacemonger'': Stories from the Cold War in Berlin Paul Cates A young U.S. Quaker organized exchanges with the USSR. Poetry 14 Many Others Before You Benjamin Warnke

Cover photo from Afghanistan ©CARE 2002/jason Sangster Two girls in an accelerated school program in Ajghanistan started by CARE

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ts ours . ... Friends would not share. Is there any Jesus' pacificism was validity to this? Is it surprising that his -a letter from a senior devil to his religious convictions were "knocked about practical nephew in C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape by real life?" Who has not had their religious Letters, 1943 Although I support the right ofFruENDS convictions knocked about by real life? JOURNAL to publish almost anything I acknowledge that often "I am his" too; What do Friends do when "real" life imaginable, and although I would encourage it's so easy! As one who reads FRJENDS conflicts with their religious convictions? your readers to extend every courtesy to j OURNAL because I want to be affirmed in They talk to others in their meeting. They Scott Simon, were it in my power I would my pacifist league-I know that senior devil ask for clearness and discernment. They take be reluctant to extend to him the credentials is having a heyday with me {and perhaps the time to religiously follow practice. of historian. Scott Simon?). What might he say to me? I We worship together in meetings. The An intellectual understanding of the am like the man in the synagogue possessed other people in the room are there for a pacifism of]esus is not possible unless one by a devil of pride-tempting Jesus, reason. It is not unusual for a seeker to be in accepts the power and reality of God. It also unsuccessfully, to misuse his authority (Luke conflict with a testimony, and it could be helps if one believes that God influences 4:31-37). that even after a process of prayer and human history only through positive Even as this evil spirit pulls me into Scott clearness that person could still be reinforcement, or, conversely, the absence of Simon's seductive patriotism, another tells conflicted. However, my experience has such reinforcement. Pacifism for human me to worry and lobby for pacifism. Neither been that this process helps not only the beings is grounded in a desire to be fully spirit brings any peace, as Peg Morton person, but also the community come to a accountable for all behavior and a belief that testifies in the same issue of FR1ENDS better understanding and resolution of the a loving God has ways of holding people jOURNAL. Thank God there is the still voice conflict. accountable. The Quaker Peace Testimony that, in the silence, speaks of eternity and Without this process, without is somewhat like the Hippocratic oath, acknowledges, with Julian of Norwich, that recognizing and valuing each other in our where the emphasis is on doing no harm. evil is n(}-thing. religious search , we can become easily lost to The writing of Scott Simon makes sense as the voices ofour egos. Truth will be found long as one assumes God is incapable of Roberta Nobleman Dumont, N .] . in humility and in faith. bringing justice to Earth. There is no plane ticket to any Once someone goes down the road of destination that will endow a member with a countervailing violence as a solution, almost Faith relative to "real" life special connection to the Truth. We need any violent action by governments can seek each other, and we need to attach more legitimacy. Scott Simon chose to identify himself as a value to our testimonies than Scott Simon The pacifism ofJ esus was a practical Quaker (F] Dec. 200 1). He certainly did has demonstrated. My hope is that he will matter-trying to help people love as God not have to; he had a microphone in any find that other members have something of loves. Acts of violence are never acts of love. case. By identifying himself as a Quaker value to share with him. If God is defined as love, how can one seek before going on to justify violence he was Scott R. Penniman fellowship with God through acts of making a point, and I believe he must have violence? Springhouse, Pa. realized that it was a dramatic one. Michael C Thielmann Simply put, the point is, "This time it's Newton, Iowa different." This time even the pacifists will Who shall judge? have to put aside their pacifism because of Silence is key the horror of September 11 , 2001. It Thank you for once again publishing an should have come as no surprise to him article by Scott Simon (FJ May) that I have been praying with the following that his comments were picked up by Soldier challenges us pacifists to sort out our beliefs passage, even as I read FRJENDS JoURNAL and ofFortune. This was music to the ears of about war and peace. Scott Simon's "To FruENDS JouRNAL readers: those who are interested in justifying War kills people and destroys things; it is A Response" (F] May): military action. immoral. But, according to Scott Simon, war is sometimes necessary to alleviate My dear Wonnwood: Because Scott Simon chose to identify himself as a Quaker, it is fair to ask some human suffering and end brutality that is ... let him begin by treating the Quakerly questions. worse than war. His justification of war in Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of The Peace Testimony is one of our oldest his view seems to hinge on two factors, one his religion. Then let him, under the and most revered testimonies. It is arguably seemingly quantifiable and hence objective influence ofpartisan spirit, come to what we are most identified with by the factor, and one rather murky factor. regard it as the most important part. outside world. It is ho small thing, then, to The quantifiable criterion is a Then quietly and gradually nurse him publicly identify yourself with the Q uakers comparison of the number of people likely on to the stage at which the religion and then speak against the Peace Testimony. to be killed in war versus how many would becomes merely part ofthe "cause, "in We believe in the ability of each be murdered if the current perpetrators of which Christianity is valued chiefly individual to discern the will of God. evil were not forcibly stopped. This might because ofthe excellent arguments it can However, there is a process to this seem to be a reasonable kind of criterion, yet produce in favor ofthe war-effort or of discernment. the vast discrepancies in quoted numbers of Pacifism . ... Provided that meetings, Scott Simon says that his religious civilians killed in the Afghanistan war, which pamphlet, policies, movements, causes convictions have been "knocked about by Scott Simon refers to in the article, are one and crusades matter more to him than real life." He talks about his travels to areas indication of how tricky such counts can be, prayers and sacraments and charity, he of conflict, implying an authority that many not to mention the utter unpredictability of

4 September 2003 FRJENDS JOURNAL Viewpoint Investing in People: Using Weapons of Mass Construction to Avert the Next War

eed I even ask? Are there any necessary), terrorists can indict our evil em­ security through military might as well as Friends who are not outraged over pire and rally much of the world to support the myth of economic security by gam­ N our government's behavior since their holy war. Only by putting the lie to their bling in the stock market and instead the tragic 9/11 attacks? On the assump­ accusations can we hope to undercut the ter­ invest in people-the world's lowest­ tion that outrage makes very few of us rorists' support base. Happy, well-fed people income people--in a common-good ap­ happy, let me suggest an avenue along don't hate with as much intensity. proach toward global societal security? which to channel our energies. Global sharing is no substitute for public Fortunately we have the avenue to do The president has decided to lash out protest, of course. We must continue to op­ so. I know of no group that better embod­ against terrorism by investing our tax dol­ pose the institutions of global dominance, be ies the brand ofpeace and security we seek lars in weapons of mass destruction in they economic (WTO, IMF, World Bank), than our own Right Sharing of World pursuit of peace through strength. We all military (Pentagon and its arm-twisted "will­ Resources (RSWR). On a project budget know this doesn't work: like the Hydra of ing" allies), or cultural (Hollywood and its ofjust $2 per U.S. Friend, RSWR consis­ Greek mythology, when you bomb hate, it perverted yet seductive values). But we all tently invests in innovative, environmen­ just multiplies. So citizens of the U.S. yearn for balance in our lives, especially when tally sound efforts to partner with those of empire and its allies will surely be targets so many of our efforts are directed toward lowest income and status to enhance the offutur e terrorist actions, and the challenge opposing government policy. We need some­ global common good. Could we set a arises of how best to counter these threats. thing we can affum. modest goal of$5 per U.S. Friend for the What if Friends chose to fight back In October 200 I, the president suggested RSWR coffers? Is this too much to ask? against terrorism with weapons of mass that people could be helpful by consuming­ Averting Washington's next war will re­ construction in pursuit of peace through anything. Instead of spending mindlessly, quire a redirection of financial resources global sharing? Would it succeed? The perhaps Friends could agree to invest mind­ away from taxes for weapons toward an world's lowest-income people rarely be­ fully in global projects that benefit those of investment in global equity. Let's test to come terrorists. They don't have the time; lowest status in the belief that we are all better see what love can do. RSWR can be survival dominates their lives. But terror­ off when we are all better off. After all, we're reached at 3960 Winding Way, Cincin­ ists are parasites on society, producing all consumers, and no one is (yet) pointing a nati, OH 45229-1950. Please contact nothing and consuming vast resources­ gun at our heads, telling us what to buy. RSWR and see how much your soul can sort of like the Pentagon. Terrorists rely Everyone from Bush to Bangladesh wants be uplifted by partnering with them to on the world's teeming masses for both "peace" and "security," so these words lack work toward a better world. moral and material support. As long as meaning unless qualified (e.g., peace through the U.S. goal is global economic domina­ strength vs. peace through global sharing). Chuck Hosking tion (bolstered by shock and awe when Why not reject the myth of" fortress America" Albuquerque, N.M. future casualities and murders. do considerations of saving lives and Promoting Quaker influence The other criterion in Scott Simon's overcoming evil outweigh the immoraliry of defense of war is the degree of stomach­ war itself, and that judgments about numbers I regret my need to chide Friend Scott turning brutality, of repression, and of the of killings, judgments on the brutality of Simon for his recently expressed views (Fj unmitigated inhumanity perpetrated by tyrannical regimes, judgments about the May). In years past his news reports were on regimes like the Taliban and that of Sad dam future, cannot rightly be made by anybody. a different plane than those of many Hussein. The implication is that there is In the world of realpolitik where our wars journalists. It grieves me that now he some threshold of evil above which such a are made, such questions of morality may declares he won't hear anything that "they" regime warrants its destruction by force, well be peripheral. It was President George (presumably those who feel World War II justifYing invasion by other countries, and W. Bush who made the momentous was a tragic end to many f.Ulures) want to that the elimination of this evil outweighs the decisions to unleash U.S. military might say. He uses the Vietnam argument--of suffering brought about by war against it. against Afghanistan and Iraq. Betraying saving something by destroying it-to justifY But how can this judgment be made, this myself now as what Scott Simon would call the devastation we have wrought in Iraq. weighing of the scales, and by whom? Who an "inflexible political ideologue," I have to Scott Simon ignores the fact that Saddam can presume to know whether choosing to say I believe that the Bush administration's used to be "our bad guy." We supported go ahead and kill people and destroy things drive to war had just about nothing to do him for years and did not protest his use of right now will do more good for humaniry­ with humane considerations of easing gas on Halabja and the accompanying or more harm- in the long run? And what suffering and eliminating evil. But they do massacres of the Kurds. moral authority is it that can rightly use these arguments to great effect in the More importantly, Scott Simon's vision determine which malevolent regimes have media, including National Public Radio. is too small. Thoughtful Quakers know that exceeded what threshold of evil repression nonviolence in the face of evil can and does and brutaliry, thus inviting invasion? As a Zandra Moberg peace advocate I believe that rarely, if ever, Philadelphia, Pa. Continued on p. 40 FruENDSJ ouRNAL September 2003 5 anistan

by Paul Barker n the context ofPresident George W because neither they nor the internation­ relationship of the Taliban leadership to Bush's declared "War on Terrorism," al community have the will and the Osama bin Laden became closer and what does it mean to live, as George wherewithal to bring peaceful change? more protective. It is an appalling and I Fox said, "in the virtue of that life Can it be that all that is required for the amazing list. and power that took away the occasion of triumph of evil in the world is for good But truth is complex. The Taliban all wars"? people to limit themselves to prayers, arose in the chaos of mujahidin-fractured What does the Quaker Peace Test­ demonstrations, and calls for peace? Afghanistan. Reports on abuse of women imony mean in the context of an Afghan­ If any group has been impugned in in mujahidin-ruled Afghanistan were as istan that has been "liberated" from the Western public opinion, it must be the appalling as those later written to docu­ terror of the Taliban regime by force of Taliban. Their harsh and uncompromis­ ment Taliban excesses. Armed factions military arms? Indeed, what did it mean ing fundamentalist version of Islam had destroyed cities. Highway robbery in the context of the harsh rule of the seemed ever intent on rushing from one and extortion were crippling any chance Taliban? Are there times when the awe­ outlandish extreme to another. And much for the recovery of the Afghan economy some power of modern weaponry can be of what has been written is true. Women and society from the horrors of the Soviet used to shake up the chess board of long war. Yet from this chaos, in entrenched "evil" regimes and allow oth­ a matter of only two years, erwise impossible outcomes? Does the the Taliban movement destruction of the Taliban regime in evolved and spread with Afghanistan vindicate the use of war as a minimal violence to control means to bring about positive change? half of the country. Myths I have been given ample cause to pon­ evolved about Taliban ~ der these and other challenging questions virtue and invincibility. j over the past years and, indeed, decades. Cities, towns, and villages ~ Revulsion at the horrors committed by peacefully came under the ~ the United States in Vietnam led me to Taliban map as command- ~ become a conscientious objector and ers succumbed to perceived eventually to find a spiritual home in the inevitability and bribes. By Religious Society of Friends. Some restless the time the movement § spirit has led me to a career in interna­ reached the outskirts of <"'.! tional relief and development, spanning Kabul, their extreme views (Q> Paul Barker (center) meets with refugees and recent returnees to five years with the Peace Corps in Iran, the Shomali valley, December 2001. on women's rights were well two years managing medical programs for known, but still many Eritrean refugees in Sudan for the Lalmba were banned from most forms ofemp loy­ K.abulis looked forward to their arrival Association, and now 19 years working ment. Severe restrictions were placed on because at least it offered the hope of for CARE in Egypt, Ethiopia, Northern female education. Harsh shari' a punish­ peace and stability. Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan. It has ments were imposed on adulteresses The Taliban were not a monolithic definitely been interesting, but making (death by stoning), thieves (amputation group. Their leadership included some sense of it through a Quaker lens is not of the right hand), beard trimmers university-educated officials and some easy. Being philosophically and morally (lengthy prison terms), and other offend­ more progressive mullahs who looked for opposed to war as a tool to solve the ers ofTaliban morality. They conducted ways to temper the organization's worst world's problems is the easy part. What massacres in some Hazara communities, excesses. There were some Taliban officials practical alternative do we then have to and they destroyed archeological treas­ with a genuine concern for the welfare of offer? Must the Afghans of the world suf­ ures, including the two giant standing the Afghan people. While most in the fer under intolerable regimes forever Buddhas of Barniyan. As their easy terri­ West would not agree with Taliban values, Paul Barker, a member ofMultnomah Meeting torial gains of 1994-96 receded into his­ we should recognize that for better or for in Portland, Oreg., is country director for CARE tory, the Tali ban employed scorched-earth worse they were driven by values and an International in Aflhanistan. He has workedfor tactics and more sophisticated military uncompromising commitment to those CARE for 19 years and has attended Friends campaigns against their entrenched oppo­ values. To believe that there is "that of meetings and worship groups in Ramallah, sition in the center and northeast of the God in every one" is to believe and to act Khartoum, Cairo, and Addis Ababa. country. And as the years went by, the as though the Taliban leadership is worthy

6 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL A COPE community-based class, educating girls whose schooling was interrupted by the Taliban. This group is studying two years of material every year to catch up to grade level.

the nascent Taliban movement. I had besieged frontlines to needy families in expected that this process would take a then opposition-held Kabul. We subse­ couple of months, with an initial visit to quently made copies of the agreement to get to know the accessible members of the be carried in all of our vehicles operating Taliban leadership and reach an agree­ in Afghanistan in order to facilitate their ment in principle. A follow-up trip in movement through Taliban-held parts of April or May might be required to actual­ Afghanistan. While we had numerous and morally ly negotiate and sign an agreement. "hiccups" along the way with our rela­ Instead, through a period of rwo days of tions with Tali ban officials at the local and opposed to war as meeting, sitting on the floor, drinking tea national levels, our staff could always refer with, and getting to know Mullah to the basic agreement signed with the a tool to solve the Attiqallah, then head of the Taliban Taliban leadership in Qandahar as the Foreign Relations office, and Mullah basis for moving forward, and usually it world's problems Abbas, then mayor of Qandahar, we were would work. Even after Mullah Attiqallah able to move from our initial draft to a had been replaced by other officials in is the easy part. negotiated and signed agreement. T hat charge ofTaliban foreign relations, some agreement recognized the integrity and officials, when presented with the signed of respect, to appeal to and to seek to nur­ responsibility of the rwo parties, the agreement simply said, "What we have ture that responsible side of their being. Taliban Authority and CARE Afghan­ signed, we have signed." istan. CARE agreed to operate with Agreement respect for the culture and traditions of Education of Girls In March 1996, six months prior to Afghanistan, and the Taliban agreed to A few months prior to the Taliban the Tali ban seizure of Kabul, I traveled to respect and support CARE's humanitari­ seizure of Khost in the spring of 1995, Qandahar with three ofour senior nation­ an efforts in Afghanistan, including the CARE had helped establish ten commu­ al staff to negotiate a basic agreement with right to transport relief commodities over nity-based schools. Under our education

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 7 philosophy, CARE would provide teacher of possibility. In the winters prior to the Prison for Beard training and educational materials for the Taliban seizure of Kabul CARE had con­ schools, but the communities were ducted emergency distributions of food Trimmers responsible for identifying and paying the and non-food items to widows. In the At 5:00A.M. one summer morning in teacher and for providing an appropriate Taliban years this evolved to a year-round 1998 Mullah Nur ad-Din Torabi, the space for the schools. Before CARE program managed by and for women. Taliban Minister ofJustice, led a group of would support any community school we The program grew to have a female dis­ armed Taliban to the CARE sub-office on required that at least 30 percent ofthe stu­ tribution team, a female monitoring a hillside overlooking the Kabul­ dents be girls. This was an ambitious tar­ team, and a female health and sanitation Maidanshah highway. He seized half of get even in pre-Taliban Mghanistan. education team. Ugly incidents did occur the office and turned its basement into a When the Taliban gained control of from time to time. A squad from the prison for men who trimmed their beards. Khost and the surrounding districts Department to Promote Virtue and He set up a roadblock on the highway and where the schools were placed, they were Prevent Vice (PV2 we called it) once sent all men who showed evidence ofh av­ dismayed to find village schools teaching stopped a bus carrying CARE female ing trimmed their beards up the hill to the girls. They told the communities to stop staff, forced them to disembark and then CARE office/Taliban prison. One of our doing this, but the communities all beat the women with a leather strap as engineers was also imprisoned: even responded, "No, these are our schools and they got off the bus. We suspended both though his beard met the Taliban length our students and we are paying for the standards, he was a Dari speaker and mis­ teachers. We want our children to learn." understood the Taliban beard length The schools stayed open and over the question when it was put to him in ensuing six years the Community Pushtu. It took us many weeks of negoti­ Organized Primary Education (COPE) ation with very senior officials in Kabul Program expanded to 707 classrooms in before we were finally able to get the main seven provinces, with 465 teachers (15 shura (council) in Kabul to issue a decree percent female) and 21,000 students (46 that the CARE office in Maidanshah percent female). The fundamental legiti­ the triumph ofevil should be returned to CARE, and it took macy of the schools was established in the yet more weeks before the Ministry of communities through their Village in the world is for Justice acted on the decree. Principled Education Committees. Often the local engagement was not fast, but it did work. Taliban mullah was selected as a member good people to of the committee. Building on hadith Polytedmic (sayings of the prophet Muhammad) such limit themselves Also in the summer of 1998, the as, "It is compulsory on all Muslim men Ministry of Planning decreed that all non­ and Muslim women to be educated," and to prayers, governmental organizations should move "Search for learning, even if it is from their Kabul offices into the severely dam­ China," the COPE schools were accepted demonstrations, and aged dormitories of Kabul Polytechnic. by communities and mullahs throughout We protested at the security implications much of southeastern Mghanistan. calls for peace? and the cost of such a move and embarked on months of negotiations and Employment of Women stalling tactics. Finally, in apparent frus­ The 1996 Amnesty International the widows' feeding program and a large tration, the Taliban began expelling inter­ report on the abuse of women's rights in water and sanitation program until we national aid agencies and sealing their pre-Tali ban Mghanistan is as damning as received assurances from the Taliban lead­ offices. When we realized what was hap­ any report later written on the anti-female ership that the py2 actions did not repre­ pening, the head of our widows' feeding excesses of the Taliban regime. From the sent official policy, and that they would program went to see Mullah Qari Din rape, plunder, and forced marriages of not be repeated. Later the regime tried to Mohammad, the Minister of Planning, mujahidin-ruled Kabul to the beatings, force us to retrench all of our female staff. and told him, "I don't want to discuss seclusion, and forced unemployment of We appealed to Mawlavi Abdulrahman your plans to expel agencies from Kabul. the Tali ban years, women ofMghanistan's Zahed, Deputy Minister of Foreign I just want to know ifwe can continue our urban centers have endured long years of Affairs, saying that it would be shameful widows' feeding program." T he minister abuse. In the austerity of Tali ban Kabul, for men to manage a women's relief dis­ thought for a few moments and agreed to the 30,000 war widows and their 150,000 tribution program. He concurred and at her request. She asked if we could have dependent children ranked among significant risk to himself approved a that in writing. He told her to come back Mghanistan's most destitute people. Their mechanism through which female CARE in two days, and indeed it was ready. plight was made worse by Taliban edicts staff could continue to work. (We have As these anecdotes indicate, it was pos­ banning female employment outside the more recently been pained to learn that sible through patience, respect, and tact to medical sector, banning female education, Mawlavi Abdulrahman Zahed is among work with Taliban leaders at different lev­ and banning women from directly receiv­ the hundreds ofTaliban now being held els to address some of the most egregious ing humanitarian assistance. But through without charges or judicial process in aspects of their policies and practices. But the nightmarish restrictions lay the seeds Guantanamo.) the policy of principled, cautious engage-

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1... 111.1 ••••• 1111 ••• 1••• 11.1 .... 11.1 ••• 111 ••••• 11.1 ment was inadequate to bring about fun­ munmons attacking bunkers, caves, bring peace to Afghanistan. damental change in Afghanistan in the tanks, and other hardened targets. The If the cautious, principled engagement near future. The constructive engagement prospect of up to 1,000 metric tons of strategies of pre-9/11/01 Afghanistan strategy was not adopted by all agencies uranium oxide now dispersed over were inadequate to fundamentally change working in Afghanistan; it was supported Afghan cities and mountains is a sobering Tali ban beliefs and behavior, could it have with limited resources; it did not directly prospect for this and future generations been more successful had it been sup­ engage all of the most senior members of of Afghans. ported with more generous funding, fol­ the Taliban leadership; and there were There has not yet been a complete or lowed by more agencies, and developed as strong and uncompromising ideas and sustainable military victory over the a more comprehensive strategy? Human- forces directing the Taliban regime who were not easily amenable to persuasion. Does quiet, cautious engagement run the risk of bringing about only marginally important positive steps, but ultimately end up giving a degree of legitimacy to a despicable regime? It is an uncomfortable question. And it probably does not have a neat answer. Ultimately, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was toppled by a massive U.S. bombing campaign and an insur­ gent ground war orchestrated by Special Forces and fought by career Afghan war­ lords and their armies. The sense of relief that was brought by the fall of the Taliban is most strongly felt in Kabul, Hazarajat, and northeast Afghanistan-areas that had suffered the most from Taliban excesses. The results are more mixed in much of the rest of the country. The peace Women line up for hdp from CARE's widows' assistance program. and security ofcommerce that the Tali ban had brought to the 90 percent of Taliban. The military successes against itarian and development assistance to Afghanistan under their control has now the Taliban have come at a high cost in Afghanistan is now running at about ten been replaced with resurgent warlordism, lives and environmental pollution: infla­ times the level of pre-9/11101 funding­ highway banditry, and a Taliban move­ tion, rising rural insecurity, and a disap­ and at one tenth the cost of the ''American ment transformed into a guerilla force. pointing pace of reconstruction all call War." Had this level of assistance been The near eradication of opium poppy into question the benefits of the regime annually available and creatively used in production under the Taliban in 2001 has change ushered in by the coalition war. the decade before that tragic date, far now been replaced with bumper crops of The stunning U.S. military victories in more opportunities would have been cre­ poppy-80 percent ofglobal production. recent years have sown the seeds of future ated to help the long-suffering Afghan "Victory'' in Afghanistan is neither com­ tragedy. GulfWar I and the establishment people and to positively influence the plete nor assured. of U.S. military bases in Arabia became Taliban leadership. The modestly sized, And the costs of the military victory the festering wound that led Osama bin community-based education program over Taliban are significant. The $10 bil­ Laden to create the al-Qaida network and cited above could have been expanded lion plus spent in the military campaign focus its wrath against the United States. nationwide, engaging community and could be seen as a great investment if it President Bill Clinton's August 1998 religious leaders in very practical discus­ were indeed a turning point in the elimi­ cruise missile attacks on al-Qaida bases in sions leading to the advancement of nation of global threats of terror, or if it the southeastern mountains of Afghan­ female education. Similarly modest proj­ were to lead to a stable, progressive istan galvanized Mullah Omar's resolve to ects that built on community structures to democracy in Afghanistan. But these ends stand by and defend the residency rights address basic needs for food, water, and are very much in the balance, and there of his Arab "guests" in Afghanistan. income could have been greatly expanded are other very real costs that should be (The Arabs had become increasingly and those community leaders much more weighed. I find credible the estimates that despised in Afghanistan, and credible empowered. Had those programs been between 3,000 and 8,000 Afghan civil­ reports claim that the Taliban had been on five or ten times larger, the influence of ians were killed in U.S. bombing "mis­ the verge of expelling Osama bin Laden the Tali ban over Afghan lives would have takes," more than the total number ofvic­ prior to the missile attacks.) The military been proportionately reduced. Perhaps a tims of the 9/11 anacks in the United defeat of the Tali ban in 2001 is now critical mass of new ideas and behaviors States. And it has been estimated that the mutating into a Taliban guerilla move­ could have been planted. United States used between 500 and ment against the new Afghan government 1,000 metric tons of depleted uranium in and its foreign supporters. War has yet to Continued on page 35

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 9 The Work of QUNO in New York by Jack T. Patterson and Lori Heninger

ince President George W. Bush's Council, has emerged deeply wounded, rorunental, and human rights- to relate challenge to the United Nations on still split by a majority resistant to U.S. to these goals. SSeptember 12, 2002, a day after the dominance of its affairs and to a U.S. Along with our sister office in Geneva, first anniversary of 9I 11 , to "disarm Iraq seemingly determined to have its way on QUNO in New York follows events and by force or do nothing and face catastro­ all issues of consequence. issues at the UN, the World Trade phe," the months that followed were at A watershed event or dam burst? It is Organization, the International Labor once frenetic, hopeful, and despairing. too soon to predict the demise of an Organization, the World Bank, and the The majority on the Security Council was organization whose irrelevance has been International Monetary Fund. For a faced with two casks that most believed predicted so many times in the past­ combined program staff of ten, this is could determine the face of the Council. only to rebound when next needed. quite an undertaking. Both offices are First, the Council had to be seen to credentialed at the UN as nongovern­ enforce its own resolutions through the he staff at the Quaker United mental organizations (NGOs) through effective disarmament of Iraq; and sec­ Nations Office have struggled Friends World Committee for Consul­ ond, it had to prevent a preemptive Tmightily during these months to cation, with the New York office adminis­ United States-led war on a member state respond to the challenge of Iraq while at tered by American Friends Service Com­ that the overwhelming majority of the same time maintaining progress on mittee and the Geneva office by Quaker nations believed was unnecessary and our other long-term commitments: Peace and Social Wimess in the United damaging co the UN Charter. The start reducing the illicit trade in small arms, Kingdom. QUNO in New York has two of the war cut short the inspections then increasing awareness about approaches to facilities: a small office at 777 UN Plaza underway, but the Security Council had preventing violent conflict, drawing across the street from the UN, and succeeded in steadfastly refusing to grant attention to the issue ofwater scarcity as a Quaker House, an inconspicuous brown­ authority for the use of force and had future source of war, and advocating for stone row house on 48th Street in engaged the world in serious deliberations Manhattan, not far away. for over eight months. In so doing, the We are inspired in our Council had honored its commitments work on behalf of Friends by under the Charter even as it found itself the words of William Penn sidelined during the war and threatened that "True godliness doesn't with further denigration of its authority turn [us] outoftheworld, but in the poscconflict period. enables [us] to live better in it, The UN, particularly the Security and excites [our] endeavors to mend it." AtQUNO, weseek ~ jack T. Patterson and Lori Heninger, members to mend the brokenness in the ·~ of Morningside Meeting in New York, have human community, of which ~ served as Quaker representatives to the United war is the most extreme G Nations since 1998. Before then, jack served on expression, by bringing what ~ the staffof American Friends Service Committee one of our Geneva colleagues ~ since 1969. Immediately prior to assuming his calls "grease, heat, and light" ~ current position, he served as Co-Director ofthe ~ Conflict Resolution Program of AFSCS New into our interactions with ~ York Metropolitan Regional Office, where he diplomats, secretariat staff, ~ headed the Expatriate Dialogues Program. and other NGOs working at ~ Among his publications is The Power ofTruth: the UN. A Retrospective Appraisal of the Quaker Jusc as sticky car doors, Study "Speak Truth to Power." Lori's work at the ambitious Millennium Development squeaky windows, and engines all need the UNfocuses on the relationship between inter­ Goals so critical to the alleviation of glob­ some form of lubricant to keep them national economic systems and conflict, children al poverty. Over the past five years, running smoothly, we provide grease in armed conflict, and global governance. Prior QUNO-NY has worked diligently to dis­ through our facilitation of discussions­ to this, Lori worked for the Center for Urban cern the focus of its work. After much often in the privacy of Quaker House­ Community Services, a U.S.-based not-for-prof it organization specializing in providing housing worship and strategic planning, we have of difficult issues that block constructive for the homeless andformerly homeless who have settled on two goals: the prevention of deliberations within the UN. The art of special needs. Lori is a graduate ofthe Columbia violent conflict, and nonviolent alterna­ facilitation makes easier the direct, frank School ofSocial WOrk and is currently complet­ tives to military intervention. We have sharing ofviews and real needs that moves ing her doctorate in social welfare. moved all of our work--economic, envi- beyond impasse and bolsters the political

10 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL Page 10: Hugh Jenkins and Allen White with the brother of the Indian representative to the UN Security Council, 1950 Left: A gathering at Quaker House in 1958 Below: Current staff of QUNO in front of the Church Center for the UN, where their offices are located Bottom: Two representatives of the World Bank, a professor &om Oregon State University, and program assistant Anna Brown chat during a recent QUNO event on water as a sow-ce of cooperation.

will to solve problems creatively. their own expense) as When issues are deeply entangled, or it is harder to demo­ when a great deal of information needs to nize someone who be worked through on an issue, QUNO has a two-year-old at staff will develop and hold a larger resi­ every meal and who dential meeting. These gatherings have you see as a parent. been held around the world, but one of Examples of facilitation include the to the establishment of a Permanent UN our favorite spots and a favorite of diplo­ decades-long work of Friends in Forum on Forests. One participating am­ mats and UN staff is Mohonk Mountain Washington and at the UN through the bassador at the final QUNO colloquium House in New York State. It is close 1970s and 1980s that led to the enact­ held in Canada said, "We've just created a enough to UN headquarters to be reached ment of the Convention on the Law of home for the forests in the UN," an excit­ in a morning, but far enough that diplo­ the Seas. More recently, QUNO played ing and fulfilling moment. mats are out of the public eye. We an important role in facilitating discus­ Recently, QUNO was asked on the encourage them to bring their families (at sions over an eight-year period that led spur of the moment to host a luncheon at Quaker House to help distrustful and increasingly deadlocked nego­ tiators ofa process leading up to the follow-up after a half decade on the World Summit on Social Develop­ ment, called the WSSD + 5-"just social, to get to know each other better with no business!" They arrived fo r lunch on a scorching <~ day, and Quaker H ouse had no air (51 conditioning then. They proceeded ~ to talk first about the chairman's :::5 intimate knowledge ofltalian film, ~ but then they moved quickly to J talking about some of the most sen- "<;> sitive issues before them. The S' result, we were told later in the ~ day, was to unstick the negotiations ~ by getting some unaddressed con- ~ cerns out on the table in a more ~ trusting environment. ~ Just as hot water can thaw a j frozen pipe, we bring heat through ~ individual and corporate witness to ~ issues. One of the most common t descriptions by diplomats of \J FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 11 QUNO's work is that we are taken seri­ ultimately would benefit all. Nonethe­ which they chaired. We do not always ously because we approach discussions as less, the ambassador left the meeting at its expect a smooth result, but we always try a neutral party, but we do not interpret dose in great haste and apparent anger. to be fair to all concerned. neutrality as indifference. We see it as While we had not intended to confront "It is better to light a candle than to being "passionately attached to all sides." the ambassador, we were glad to have curse the darkness," holds deep truth. Nor do we agree with everyone all the facilitated an exchange of words about The light of a candle pushes back the time-on the contrary, we hold firmly to hard things that might not otherwise have darkness and allows us to see; moreover, the testimonies of Friends and they happened. We quickly followed up that the act of lighting the candle is in itself a inform our thought on all issues. Still, we incident with phone calls and soon after way of banishing the darkness, moving listen to everyone and encourage all to worked supportively with staff of that from inertia to action. QUNO has been have their say, particularly those whose mission on the issue ofsmall arms trade- a leader in many issues before the UN, voices are often softer than others. Diplomats seem generally to appreci­ ate that our motive is to help them address district known as "Turtle Bay." Quaker their problems more than to advance our House is a short walk from the Quaker own agenda on an issue. They know we QJlaker UN Office--located directly across the do this work out of a deep sense of the street from the UN-but far enough to importance of addressing the world's be out of the public eye and to allow for problems, a deep caring for the people a break from the formal atmosphere ofthe who make it happen, and that we are House UN. always clear on our position when Over 50 years ago, Quakers began asked-which is quite often. Recently a their work at the UN from an apartment UN official said: "What was remarkable near the UN buildings. In 1953, a small about the Quaker organization was their at the group of donors got together to deter­ unobtrusiveness, their desire to allow the mine how to create a permanent Quaker dynamics of the meeting to take place, presence at the UN, and the result was leading to a good result without trying to United Quaker House. A small brass plaque impose their own beliefs on those who are identifies the building, which is almost there. There was a certain transparency indistinguishable from the other row and an integrity about that process." houses on the block. Examples of heat include bringing a Nations The first floor of the house holds a small group of expatriate Hutu and Tursi small office, an accessible bathroom, an leaders together after the Rwandan geno­ by Lori Heninger elevator, and an apartment used to house cide for a daylong facilitated exchange. visiting Friends who are doing work at the Tension in the room at Quaker House UN. The second floor is the main pro­ was palpable, yet amazingly, at the end of ine you are in the living room gram floor that includes a living room, the day, one of the Hutu leaders said, your home. Now imagine the dining room, and kitchen. The third and "You know, this is the first time in four E e scene, except that in addition fourth floors are our living space. In back years we've talked face to face. I can see to you, the room is filled with diplo­ of the house is a beautiful communal gar­ your eyes and you can see mine and we mats from around the world who rep­ den that stretches the length of the block have been talking to each other as human resent their countries at the United from 2nd to 3rd Avenues. beings. We must not let this die." Nations. I don't have to imagine this E.B. White, a former resident of the Another time Amanda Romero, a human -1 see it on a regular basis in the liv­ block, set his famous children's story, rights activist based in Bogota, Colombia ing room of Quaker House in New Stuart Little, in the garden behind Quaker and AFSC Q uaker International Affairs York City. But it's not only diplomats House. In 1949 he wrote a prophetic Representative (QIAR), spoke on the that come. Representatives of non­ book, Here is New York, on war coming human rights situation in Colombia to a governmental organizations, staff of to the United States and to New York room filled with diplomats, including the the UN Secretariat, people from the in particular: private sector, and representatives of Colombian ambassador, and other The city, for the first time in its long his­ First Nations also come to meet, gath­ activists. Amanda Romero spoke frankly tory, is destructible. A single flight of planes no and honestly about her experiences and er information, and discuss issues bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end the experiences of others. The reaction to ?efore the UN, right there in our liv­ this island fancasy, burn the towers, crumble her comments was quick and severe­ mg room. the bridges, turn the underground passages some even suggested she was not a real I live with Jack Patterson, my hus­ into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. Colombian to promote such lies outside band and co-director of the Quaker The intimation of mortality is part of New the country. We stated that our goal was United Nations Office in New York, York now; in the sounds of jets overhead, in not so much to reach agreement--differ­ along with our daughter, two dogs, the black headlines of the latest editions. ences in experiences were too wide for and a cat, in Quaker House, a four­ All dwellers in cities must live with the that-but to achieve some understanding story brownstone in the heart of the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the as part of a continuing discussion that

12 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL lUI JUUH Ulllll'Ull!:> dUUUL ptUUl C:lU~ UC:YUilU aJ.lU UC:lllUUUIL.aUUU dl WaJ. S C:llU, ULUC: UIUU::., Ill I...UllCIUU!CIUUU W!Ul JJ!. VUU traditional give-and-take negotiating. attention has been given to the experi­ Keairns of Pittsburgh (Pa.) Meeting as ences of adolescent women or children principal investigator, undertook a study ver the past few years, QUNO has who often face a myriad of different to get the story of girls' lives and their begun to undertake its own demobilization and reintegration Oresearch to develop new informa­ needs in their own words. This is cion and raise the level of the discourse on the first study of its kind; the exec­ an issue. Our recent work on the experi­ utive summary was released in ences ofgirl child soldiers is an example of October 2002 and the country-spe­ this. While much has been said about cific studies in the summer of2003. fact is somewhat more concentrated because organize a private meeting of of the concentration of the city itself, and ambassadors to discuss the because, of all targets, New York has a appointment of a new certain dear priority. In the mind of whatever Secretary-General for the UN. perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, Quaker House was the site of New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm. organizational meetings for the first NGO Forum during a As the World Trade Center towers fell world conference on the in 200 1 and the subways, bridges, and Environment held in Rio. tunnels closed, the staff of QUNO gath­ ered in the living room of Quaker House Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta to comfort one another and to watch the Menchu, Guatemalan human unfolding horror. Being together in a rights activist, addressed diplo­ place ofpea ce was a great comfort to us all mats in Quaker House in 1986. m those hours. Critical breakthroughs were Quaker House is used for meetings by made on the conference plat­ the staff of the Quaker UN Office; these form for the 1995 World meetings usually take place during the Conference on Women in lunch hours of the UN, between one and Beijing during a lunch meeting three. At a normal diplomatic luncheon at the house. More recently, a meeting at the UN people sit around launch for the study "The tables, food is served in a very formal Voices of Girl Child Soldiers" manner, and people talk. We are looking was held with diplomats, for more than this; we want people to get NGOs, and the media attend­ to know one another on a personal level. ing. T he first meeting of the We ask people to come to the buffet table Planning Bureau for the Mon­ and get their own lunches. They sit on of the UN." Conversation begins to terrey Conference on Financing for chairs or couches and juggle their plates loosen up. People begin to see one anoth­ Development took place at Quaker on their laps or eat from TV trays. Perhaps er as human beings instead of solely as House, as did meetings leading up to they don't know the person they are sit­ representatives of countries, and relation­ Secretary-General Kofi Annan's report ting next to because there are no preas­ ships develop. From relationships, gen­ on Conflict Prevention. signed seats, and so they strike up a con­ uine dialogue can emerge. History has been made inside the versation. Food is always vegetarian and One of the most important things we walls ofQuaker House, and ifwe, the nondairy to meet the diverse dietary do at QUNO is to build relationships. staff of QUNO, have anything to say needs of the participants, and it is always This means a lot of behind-the-scenes about it, this pattern will continue. delicious-food is a great lubricant of the work, meeting with individuals before we We often remind ourselves that we wheels of conversation. bring them together at Quaker House. stand on the shoulders of giants- the A brief presentation usually begins the Quakers Sam and Muriel Levering representatives who have come before discussion, and then people talk about the worked for 20 years to create and negoti­ us and have paved the road to the subject at hand, not from a prepared doc­ ate the Law of the Seas Treaty, and much UN. Quaker House is truly a treasure ument, but as human beings representing of this work was done in small meetings that the Quaker community holds. their countries. We know that we are around the Quaker House dining room Jack and I have been, and continue to getting somewhere in the negotiating table. In 1957, Quaker House provided a be, extremely fortunate to represent process when we hear guests say, "Well, venue for white South African diplomats Friends in this way, and we are blessed this is my personal opinion, but ... " or, to meet with diplomats from black to reside in a home dedicated to peace "Maybe I shouldn't say this, but ..." or, African countries. After the death of Dag and built on the foundation of the tes­ "We couldn't talk about this on the floor Hammarskjold, QUNO was invited to timonies of Quakerism. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 13 statt member ts tollowmg a leadmg to lttt up the issue of fresh water as a potential source of conflict and war in the century ahead. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has suggested water might be the major cause of war in coming years. We approached the issue differently-not so much looking at war as the occasion of conflict and violence, but at water as a potential source of cooperation. Through meetings at Quaker House and at UN headquarters, we have brought together research findings that confirm what we had suspected: that transboundary water disputes have been resolved cooperatively far more often than through violence and offer impressive models for the successful resolution ofother difficult or even explo­ sive issues. It turns conventional wisdom in the UN upside down and has opened the way for fresh thinking about, and beyond, water issues. 6eneeth an awnlna to a cab. QUNO staff are also working on a lit­ erature review/interview book on the It Is the same elsewhere. potential relationship between poverty and violent conflict. This work is being 1be front moves throtlih. done in collaboration with Dr. Michael The sky turns gray-green. Snarr ofWtlrnington College in Ohio and The birds skate In clattering drdes, should be ready in 2004. Wlnas light-dark. light-dark In all this work we seek to bring "grease, heat, and light" to the task of In an unknown heliograph. mending the world's brokenness. The A mother calls for her son watershed events that led up to war in To come Inside. A man selling Iraq, we believe, may yet move us toward the vision so ably described by Kofi Nuts and cardamom packs his boxes. Annan just months before 9/11/01 and the responses to it dampened so much of Others before you have come home the world's confidence that peaceful goals At shifts-end to help an unde or brother are attainable. Kofi Annan spoke then of Dig a space beneath the cellar floor &njamin mzmke lives the currents he sensed building worldwide Because the news has gotten worse. in Brooklyn, New l'Ork. and advocated the need for peacebuilding and for the prevention of violent conflict. The children play In the heaps Single-cause explanations of armed con­ of sand and day on the sidewalk. flict were "too simplistic." He argued, '~ Somebody looks for bricks or timbers. awareness of growing dangers in the new century might help us consider funda­ Twelve feet below they reach mental changes in our relations with The surface of the Earth groups beyond our own and accept the mutual benefit that can be gained through Two thousand five hundred years ago, political accommodation, respect for the A road of the ancient capital diversity and the active promotion of Before the armies of the east social justice ... .It might enable us to at last move beyond the ancient habits of Breached the walls, slaughtered all blaming, dehumanizing, repressing, and They could find, and leveled attacking 'the other side."' We at QUNO The place for the first time. hope to continue our work with this elo­ quent and prescient appeal in our hearts -Benjamin wtlrnke for fresh approaches to solving global problems. 0 14 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL Jesus tn A)'ttttness ana Love by John Pitts Corry the fall of 1999 I traveled with a The stages of understanding that had car­ sonality or mission may draw our atten­ ongtime friend to Israel. From Haifa ried me toward a deeper appreciation of tion. From the kaleidoscopic images of Ewe drove to Vered HaGalil, a remote the figure I had come to Israel to spend Jesus reflected by the culture a few may Jewish guest house and horse farm high time with. What of Jesus today? Was he become more real for us. And Jesus, step­ on the slopes of the steep hills encircling still available? If the older images no ping away from the colliding images sup­ the northern tip of the Sea of Galilee. longer worked for many modern believ­ plied by others, seems to move in our As we visited the sites associated with ers, how would Jesus wish to speak with direction for a more intimate visit. the Sermon on the Mount and other us now? events of Jesus' ministry, and wandered That night, unable to sleep, I went out s we sit and talk with this gentle man over the semi-arid rough slopes among onto our stone patio at about 5:00A.M. As who speaks with such authority we the scattered, gnarled olive and fig trees, I began writing, just as the darkness was Amay sense he has come from a great thistles, and grape vines, images of the beginning to lift over Galilee, I was ener­ distance to seek us out-to speak to us man who had roamed these hills before us gized to trace the flow of my conflicted one on one, as one talks with a friend, to and who has become such a part of our reflections. Looking back, these reflec­ listen to our difficulties, to sympathize lives and culture flooded through my tions seem relevant to the wrestling of with our hurt feelings, to respect the par­ mind. Jesus at the synagogue in Friends today with the roots of our ticularities of our individual life. As he lis­ Capernaum rebuking the unclean spirit. Quaker faith. tens we may sense that he does not so (Or was it what we'd call a trauma? An Moving from one's accustomed life much resolve our dilemmas-though he addiction? A mental illness of some sort?) into the transpersonal, transcendent may touch our needs as he did the Preaching the restoration of God's king­ realm, one may initially perceive reality as wounded ones in Galilee-as invite us dom in Israel to the farmers and peasants becoming less certain, more blurred at the into a fresh companionship, befriending around him. edges. In time this amorphous presence of us, being with us in the struggles ahead. And now, after 2,000 years? H ad he goodness around us, this marginal pres­ At some point--earlier for some, later been wrong? Fallible? Had the kingdom ence of hopefulness, may sharpen for us for others, but for all when ready-Jesus judgment come with the fall of the into the more focused shape of a human invites us to care in a new way for the lives Temple in C.E. 70? Or with the spirit-led figure-a person, Jesus. of those around us. Love for our sisters communal life ofthe first Christians? And and brothers, near to us and as wide as the later, George Fox? Jesus alone at night evisited by what has been for us a entire human family, becomes our pas­ praying to the Father. But if he were the cultural icon, the figure ofJ esus­ sion. We become fearless in the particular Son of God, divine, why would he need Rradical prophet, healer, demigod, enterprises to which we are called. Aware to pray? quixotic teacher-may begin to take on of our personal package of strengths and As I wrestled with the questions, the new life, at times a model for our own weaknesses, we are asked to contribute to conflicting images ofJ esus, I tried to cen­ behavior. He may become a symbolic the upbuilding of God's kingdom. And ter on my own journey. Where I had presence, like Moses or Gandhi or we may sense that the inner companion, found peace over the years in my own life. Mother Teresa, that reminds us of the pos­ the inner teacher, Jesus, who spoke to so sibilities inherent in our problematic many earlier Friends still waits on our john Pitts Corry is a member of Middletown nature-and then some aspect of his per- attention and wishes to speak to us one at Meeting in Lima, Pa. a time, in stillness and in love. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 15 by Stanley Zarowin

or years I vowed never to to bring the warring parties of my upset as I am? I asked many such hypo­ return to Palestine, my birth­ Palestinian-Jewish heritage to a place of thetical Jesus questions for many different place, because, as a Jew­ peace. My American parents had settled reasons during the visit. albeit a secular Jew-1 felt a there in the late 1920s-my mother to The Israeli trip was made more sense of outrage and shame teach nursing and my father to manufac­ poignant by something that happened for Israel's inhumane response to the ture aluminum pots and pans. I was born about a year earlier. I have long been Palestinians' desire for a homeland. in Jerusalem more than a decade before involved with the Alternatives to Violence Somehow I expected the people of a Israel's birth. With World War II spread­ Project (AVP), with many years of facili­ nation that endured the Holocaust and ing into the Middle East, my parents tating antiviolence programs for men im­ gained its own homeland to respond less decided it was prudent to abandon their prisoned for violent crimes. By training brutally to the Palestinians' quest. But at home, property, and careers and return to and experience, I learned to see beyond the same time, I also felt outrage with the the United States. individual criminal acts and anger to rec­ Arabs for their multiple attempts to drive Both FUM and American Friends ognize that of God in the people with the Jews into the sea and the subsequent Service Committee, the service organiza­ whom I worked. Because of my experi­ terrorist activities. As if that were not tion that as a stand-in for U.S. Friends ence, a Quaker group asked me to facili­ enough, as a convinced Quaker, I've long shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 with tate antiviolence training workshops for been dismayed that Friends, despite our British Friends Service Council for pro­ Palestinian schoolteachers. I accepted the Peace Testimony, have never undertaken a viding humanitarian help after World invitation with enthusiasm and envi­ serious peacemaking role in the Middle War II, have active humanitarian and sioned eventually enlarging the activity to East and have shown a bias in favor of political programs in Palestine designed to bring together in one AVP workshop the Palestinians. educate and empower Arabs in their quest both Arabs and Jews- hoping I could Yet in February, I found myself among for independence. While those efforts are help them to look beyond their anger. 26 Quaker "leaders" on a pastoral visit to laudatory, regrettably few of their pro­ But that dream was quickly dashed. Israel and Palestine's violence-torn West grams have been designed to bring When my would-be hosts learned that, Bank organized by Friends United Palestinians and Israelis together in despite the fact that I have been a Quaker Meeting (FUM). For FUM, the goals peace-an omission that I believe contra­ for several decades, I was an ethnic Jew, were to provide support for its Quaker dicts our Peace Testimony and has vexed the invitation was withdrawn because it school in Israeli-occupied Ramallah and me as a Quaker and as a Jew. was believed the Arabs would find it to show us evidence of the suffering In my view, Arab and Jew are both vic­ hard, if not impossible, to work with a Palestinians experience under Israel's mil­ tim and perpetrator, and, as a result, both Jew--even a Quaker Jew. At first, the itary rule. Because I maintain strong suffer--each in a different way. The role cancellation stung. But in time I realized emotional ties to my place of birth, I of the true peacemaker is not to demonize that the rejection was a gift: I could went with a different goal: to seek ways either side in a dispute; nor to support -and must- find a way to return as a only the underdog. After all, while might Quaker peacemaker. Stanley Zarowin recentry served as assistant clerk does not make right, weakness does not When I received the surprise invitation ofNew York Yearry Meeting. This summer he necessarily make right either. from FUM, I felt guided by a spiritual moved from New York City to Zionsville, Indi­ I was in a quagmire: displeased and dis­ leading (if not a spiritual shove) but I also ana, to wed a local Quaker and subsequentry appointed with the Palestinians, the Jews, knew the trip would be difficult for me­ tramferred his membership from Brookryn (N. Y) Meeting to North Meaclow Circle of and the Quakers-three groups that, in emotionally and physically. What a load of baggage to bring on a pastoral visit. Friends in Indianapolis, where he pfam to intro­ part, define my identity. And like the Pogo duce the Alternatives to Violence Project. He is a cartoon, I found the enemy; it was us. At first, the ride from the airport in Tel freelance journalist specializing in technology. I often wondered how Jesus would Aviv to Jerusalem was rural: olive groves He has cautioned his pun-loving Friends that the have dealt with these contradictions. on rocky, steep-terraced hillsides; small move to Zionsville does not make him a Zionist. Would he have been as judgmental and herds of sheep grazing on wisps of grass

16 September 2003 FRIENDS JoURNAL that sprout from the boulder-strewn his strong pro-Arab stance. Although he countryside; and mile after mile offorests never became involved in direct violence, planted by Jews over the past 50 years. But he confessed to me his one-man smug­ then our guide pointed out the carcass of gling operation, which also baffied and an Israeli tank or the wing of a downed amused his closest friends, many ofwhom Israeli fighter plane-memorials to the were Palestinians. Although he was never several unsuccessful Arab invasions in the imprisoned, the British harassed him, short life of this nation. He also called our arresting him for minor violations (and attention to high piles of rubble blocking then immediately releasing him when his the entrance to several side roads-part of Arab lawyer friend intervened) and, at the Israeli military's strategy to thwart one point, confiscating his motorcycle for access to isolated Palestinian villages. parking in a restricted wne. Why did the Israeli military block the seek ways to 1JrJng That evening two members of the roads? Security. The word security be­ Christian Peacemaker Team met with us came the most frequent explanation for the warring parties and described how they canvass neigh­ every Israeli use of force or hwniliating of my Palestinian­ borhoods in occupied cities; when they action imposed on Palestinians. One West come upon Israeli soldiers harassing an Bank Arab joked later when I complained Jewish heritage to a Arab they intervene nonviolently. They about the cold, wet weather, "Blame it admitted it was often difficult to see that on security." place of peace. of God in the molesting soldiers, and that The next day we toured Jerusalem's daily group prayer sessions helped over­ Old City. Soldiers were everywhere, with come their outrage. I was impressed by ~ automatic weapons draped over their their candor, faith, and courage, but I was ~ shoulders. When we arrived at the in the afternoon, I took a stroll-to spend discouraged to learn that team member- C) Western Wall, the most sacred spot in some time alone to process the emotional ship is limited to Christians-no Jews or t; Jewish religious and national conscious­ events of the day. Behind the hotel I hap­ Muslims allowed. What a missed oppor- ~ ness, we had to submit to a search. pened on an old stone Although I had no intention of praying (I building; a brass plaque had never learned Hebrew prayers or been identified it as the British bar mitzvahed), I found myself being consulate, dated 1921. drawn to it. Suddenly a gun-toting soldier Suddenly a flood of who had just finished praying intercepted memones overcame me: me and, pointing to my head, said, "You this must have been the must cover your head." At that moment a building where my father Hasidic Jew in black overcoat and hat was frequently hauled in came from behind and handed me a yar­ by British soldiers for mulke. The soldier, sensing my embar­ interrogations. While rassment, said, "It's okay." I took advan­ nonpolitical, my father tage of the opening and asked, "So, how was an anomaly to the is it being a soldier here?" He thought a British-and to some moment and said gravely, "I just want to Jews and Arabs, as well. go home." Tears misted in his eyes, and I On the one hand, in the felt a deep connection with his emotion. 1930s he covertly assisted As he walked away, I wondered: What the Haganah, the secret had he been praying for? His family's safe­ civilian Jewish security A street scene in Tel Aviv ty? Shame for the way many of his fellow force, by smuggling guns soldiers were treating the Palestinians? to those who were defending civilians tunity to forge bridges of peace. Shame for his own actions? Or did he against a band of Arab radicals the British I wondered whether Jesus also would simply pray to go home? were secretly arming. The British, anxious have been angry and judgmental, and On my living room wall at home is a to remain in control of this strategic strip how he would have dealt with the photograph of the stone house my grand­ of land, sought to foment disputes contradictions. father built in Jerusalem. I never knew the between Arab and Jews as a way to justify In the morning we were taken by bus address- a piece ofinform ation I consid­ their continued presence. On the other around the outskirts of Jerusalem, ered totally irrelevant since I had no inter­ hand my father was a strong supporter of where many illegal Israeli settlements est in returning to my homeland. But the Arab independence-economically as have sprung up. The tour was conduct­ image of the three-story building of well as politically. When he introduced ed by the Committee Against Home rough-hewn stone is burned into my the first labor union into his small facto­ Demolitions-a Jewish group trying in memory. During the daylong tour of ry, other Jewish businessmen were aghast. vain to halt the bulldozing of Arab Jerusalem I kept searching in vain for that And the British, suspecting him to be a homes condemned because a family house. When we returned to the hotel late member of the Haganah, were baffied by member was identified as a terrorist.

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 17 In Abu Dies, Palestinians scale der his eyes became. I could an unfinished security wall feel him squirm as the ques­ that will divide their village. tions he received forced him to face his own contradic­ tions. I wondered whether Our guide, a secular the delegation could empa­ Jew, could not hide her thize with him-how this rage. When I questioned decent man agonized over her later, she said fear has the pain of his ambiguity. driven many Israelis to My instinct was to tell him irrational, inhumane acts. I understood his agony, So, she said, her rage was but my own contradictions .:; mixed with sorrow and paralyzed me. ~ ~ compassion-and again, That evening after din­ ~ as with the soldier, I felt ner, we assembled to hear ~ a deep connection with Father Nairn Ateek, a ~ her comp.lex, contradic­ Palestinian who heads a ~ tory emoaon. group called Sabeel, preach ~ In the afternoon we what he labels "liberation ~ drove to Abu Dies, a theology." I expected his Palestinian village where presentation to suggest pro­ Israel is building a 25-foot-high concrete in frustration. I even sensed their anger at grams designed to achieve peace with security wall topped by barbed wire, me for pointing out the obvious. On Israel and economic growth and stability floodlights, and electronic detectors. It more than one occasion it was explained for Palestine. But instead his presentation will eventually extend 250 miles through to me that foreigners can't appreciate what was a well-crafted but one-sided retelling the West Bank. Most of it will be built on Israelis are going through-not only the of the last half-century of the Arab-Israeli vacant land, but in Abu Dies, and proba­ constant fear ofs uicide bombers or sniper conflict and a graphic itemization of bly in other places as well, it will bisect the attacks, but the ultimate Arab threat to atrocities committed against Palestinians. village. The villagers were still able to scale drive them into the sea. When he dismissed the work of Rabbis the unfinished wall. We watched in The next day we traveled to Beth­ for Human Rights and Al Haq as ineffec­ silence as old men and women with bun­ lehem, which is in the Palestinian West tual, hypocritical, and nothing but pub­ dles, and young children hanging on to Bank-"enemy" territory-so we had to lic-relations stunts, I wondered how the mothers slowly climbed in single file over go through our first heavily armed mili­ delegation was receiving his message. I the unfinished barrier. In a move of sup­ tary checkpoint. There are hundreds of wanted to fill in the critical history he port, several of us joined the slow-moving checkpoints at strategic locations on high­ omitted, but for the first time during the line. In silence we returned to our bus. ways throughout the West Bank and trip, as the only Jew, I suddenly felt iso­ That night, back in Jerusalem, we met Gaza. We were told stories by Palestinian lated from my Christian Friends and, for with a panel of human rights activists: a activists about how, on occasion, Israeli the moment at least, lacking the courage rabbi with the Rabbis for Human Rights; soldiers made Arabs disrobe and stand in to speak. an Arab lawyer from Al Haq, an organ­ the cold while their vehicles were searched. But then something happened. Most ization that works on human rights In Bethlehem we visited a Franciscan of his rapid-fire talk left few opportunities issues and international law; and an Israeli counseling center for war-traumatized for questions. Just as I was resigned to who heads the Committee Against children and parents. We were told stories silence, he hesitated and drew a deep Home Demolitions. of children who had become distraught breath. Without thinking what I was In later talks with Israelis I met in from the gunfire; many became mute and going to say, I rose to my feet as ifl were shops and on the streets, I got the impres­ depressed. Now, however, just a few in meeting for worship. I felt the anger sion that, while many are in general months after the latest military episode, drain, and in a steady voice I told him agreement with these activists, most still we saw children playing and singing joy­ how disappointed I was with his message, support Ariel Sharon, the prime minister fully-a tribute to the success of the cen­ that I had hoped it would have advocated and mastermind of the brutal military ter. We joined them in singing, but many peace, tolerance, and understanding, but occupation. When I pointed out the obvi­ of us left misty-eyed. it appeared designed instead to inflame ous contradiction, they responded that That evening, back in Jerusalem, we Jews, Christians, and Muslims-not while they would prefer a peaceful settle­ met with a sad-eyed Israeli who coordi­ something I believe a man of God should ment, they still support Sharon's iron fist nates fundraising activities with the be advocating. With that, I sat- and because they believe only such a ruthless Jewish Federations in America. While he began quaking. response will provide security. When I said he prayed for peace and questioned Clearly, he was surprised, and he confronted them with the reality-that the legality of the new settlements, he launched an attack at me. I remained Sharon's harsh tactics are not only not apologetically endorsed the military's silent, and the more he prodded me, the stopping the terrorists but likely are actions. Why? Again, for security. The more centered I became. Afterwards, inflaming them- they shook their heads more he responded to questions, the sad- some Friends allowed how they, too, were

18 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL uncomfortable with his acerbic message. I by students and teachers. felt less alone. That night, as I waited for Again, I wondered how Jesus would sleep, I again asked myself how Jesus have responded. would have responded. Late that afternoon I met my The next morning we left for Palestinian host. Husan, the father in the Ramallah, where each member of the del- family, greeted me warmly, though not egation was to be housed for the next sev- aloud because his English was only a mite eral days with a Palestinian Muslim fami- better than my nonexistent Arabic. So our ly, all parents of Friends School children. "conversation" included a lot of smiles I now had to face a decision: do I reveal and head-nodding. To my relief, his wife, to my Muslim host that I was not only a Asma, and older daughter, Maysa, spoke Quaker, but also an ethnic Jew? I had con- enough English for us to complete the sidered revealing myself on the last day of introductions, and within an hour we the visit, not only to give my hosts time to were able to laugh easily at our cultural see me as a person and not to just profile and linguistic stumblings. me as a Jew, but also for my physical safe- The next day the delegation visited a ty. I finally decided to disclose my birth play center for youngsters living in a religion in a letter after I returned home. refugee camp. To call it a "play center" is I must admit, however, that my lack of an overstatement; it's a one-story courage to disclose the truth while I was makeshift stone building with no heat there troubles me still. However, I have and a tiny play area. The building, owned since received a loving letter from the fam- by the United Nations, which supplies ily accepting me as a Quaker and relief food for the poorest a Jew. of the poor in the refugee When we reached Ramallah, camps, is on loan to the Yasir Arafat's headquarters, center as a temporary which has been under constant replacement for one that Israeli attack, I expected to see a recently burned down, war-torn city ofcrumbling build- and there is some ques- ings and empty streets. Instead, cion about how long the while Arafat's old headquarters is arrangement will last. a pile of rubble, the rest of the Some days later, while city is a thriving commercial meeting with members of metropolis with monumental Ramallah Friends Meet- traffic jams. Streets were crowded ing, I asked whether their with pedestrians, and shops over- old stone meetinghouse, flowed with merchandise. De- which stands empty most spite the crowding, everything . . . . of the time since the seemed to flow civilly. Some of the Izmjqna famlly that hosted Stanley Zarowm m Ramallab meeting has only a hand- That afternoon, we broke into small kind of angry rhetoric was usual, and ful of members, might house the refugee groups and visited classrooms of the whether the Friends School seeks to influ- children during the week. The suggestion Friends School. The students, who study ence the students or the parents with was immediately rejected with the expla- both Arabic and English, quickly warmed teachings about Quaker testimonies. I nation that the historic building would up, and when we invited questions, they was told the school did not directly inter- not be suitable. "Plus, it's in a noisy neigh- tossed us some political hot potatoes: "Do cede; it was felt the students need oppor- borhood." I wondered-and finally, after you like President Bush?" ("No, although tunities to vent their anger. some hesitation, asked out loud-is the he is our president and I respect the office, I thought about it and said this may cold, temporary, makeshift building that I do not like many of his decisions.") "Do indeed be a wise decision for a secular now houses the 30 refugee children any you like Arafat?" (Gulp! "I don't know. school, but this was a Quaker school. more suitable; and would laughing, noisy, I've never met him.") Shouldn't teachers do something to pro- playing children really mind a little traffic In the afternoon, we visited a medical mote Quaker values? The school official noise? Later I learned that several U.S. rehabilitation center where many of the reluctantly conceded that Quaker testi- Quaker groups are making sizable finan- patients, we were told, had been wound- monies were not stressed in the curricu- cial contributions to Ramallah Meeting to ed by Israeli gunfire. Before the tour, we !urn, although the school did give classes improve the little-used meetinghouse. were entertained with a musical program in "ethics." After I asked for details, the Another tough question for Jesus. staged by students and then a fiery anti- official conceded the ethics syllabus was As I sat with that contradiction, I Israeli speech by a parent. Later, at school too abstract to address the students' anger. recalled that in the United States some assemblies, I witnessed students delivering The picture of one student who had been old, historic meetinghouses are lovingly similar messages, but more nationalistic in killed by the soldiers hung on the wall of restored or kept in mint condition at great tone. I asked a school official whether this one classroom and it was often referred to financial cost. Are these old buildings

FruENDS JoURNAL September 2003 19 being revered as icons of our faith? Is dise. It was heartening to see how the that not a contradiction of our Arabs had turned the humiliating check­ Testimony of Simplicity? points into a commercial bazaar. Yet another question for Jesus. To my surprise, at no time did the sol­ A stone wall separates the play cen­ diers stop and search us or anyone else, for ter from the Amari refugee camp, one that matter. So what was the purpose of of several established by Israel for the the checkpoint- surely not security? "To Palestinians displaced by the many debase us," our Arab taXi driver said with­ wars. Once a family is given refuge in out emotion. "Just another act of con­ such a camp, it rarely can rise above tempt for the Palestinian." the poverty level to escape. As a result, That evening Husan invited me to meet -E the camp is a breeding ground for his friends. Although tired, I readily agreed. ~ malcontents and terrorists. And We walked through a rubble-strewn lot to ~ although the camp's size is ftxed by the a lean-to covered by a sheet of corrugated -S' stone walls, its population continues iron. Inside, a homemade potbelly stove ~ to grow; three generations of residents blazed, keeping the clubhouse cozy. But 1- were born there. So the only solution because the lean-to had no chimney, ~ is to build up-two, three, and even smoke from the wood fire filled the room. ~ four stories high. The current build- Contributing even more smoke were nine ings are spaced only some 15 feet apart, cigarette-smoking men-Husan's friends­ and as the buildings rise, they create A hundred-year-()ld great-grandfather living in the who, I learned, meet every night in their Amari refugee camp cave-like alleyways that tend to be improvised clubhouse to talk about their strewn with garbage. During the lockdown, some of the sol­ favorite subject: politics. A visit to a refugee camp was not on diers vandalized the other apartments. I was invited to sit in an old easy chair our group's schedule, but once I got a That night I heard what sounded like whose exposed tufts of stuffing indicated glimpse ofone from the outside, it was on machine gun fire. The next morning I it was lovingly rescued from the junk mine. From that day on, with few excep­ learned that soldiers had broken up a heap. A large couch and a few other well­ tions, I set my own agenda, even if that peace rally in the middle of the city. That worn easy chairs completed the interior meant traveling separately from the rest of action led to stone-throwing, and the sol­ decoration. When I began to choke from the delegation. I was determined to see diers fired above the heads of the crowd the accumulated smoke, one of the men how Palestinians live. I wanted to talk to and arrested several young men, charging graciously tried to wave it away from my those trapped in the camps. I wanted to them with terrorism. I was told about the face, but the chain-smoking continued. I understand the politics, fears, and hopes event with no emotion-as if it were a nodded a thank-you for his hand-waving of the disenfranchised; and, most of all, to weather report. The other stories-about efforts and determined to suppress any understand their nationalistic determina­ the takeover of their house and the herd­ further choking by sheer willpower. I did­ tion-something I felt in most every ing of all those people into one room for n't realize it then, but Husan noticed my Palestinian I met. Most wanted peace, but three days-also were told without emo­ smoke aversion, and from then on, when­ a few wan ted revenge first. tion. That, I concluded, is a way the ever we were in the apartment he smoked That evening, I mentioned to my hosts Palestinians cope--suppress the emotion. in another room. my wish to see more. Asma conferred I was to see more innovative coping dur- One man, with a cigarette poised deli­ . . . with the family, including a relative who tng my VISlt. cately between fingertips, spoke with such works for the UN in the refugee camp. The next day was cold, windy, and arm-waving gusto that ashes spilled on his They agreed to show me everything I rainy. Our delegation was scheduled to neighbors. Although his English was wanted to see--and, as it turned out, visit Birzeit University, which is only a rudimentary, I easily understood him. things that were not on my list- for they short distance outside the ciry, but His major points: An independent wanted this American to see what the because the route is intersected by a mili­ Palestinian nation is the only way to rem­ occupation was doing to Palestinians. tary checkpoint that permits few vehicles edy our fury. Israelis are trying to destroy We started with a tour of the apart­ to pass, the trip can take several hours. We our will, our soul. But they can't. The ment, where bullets had torn through rwo took a taXi to the checkpoint, whereupon more they step on us, the more we are bedroom walls. The apartment was only a we walked a kilometer in the rain up a determined to survive. temporary lodging for the family. Their steep muddy road through the check­ He appeared to be the club's spokes­ permanent home, a one-story building on point and down the hill to a swarm of man, but that did not stop the others the same street, had been commandeered taxis waiting artxiously for fares. On our from coaching him, tossing in an occa­ by Israeli soldiers during the last invasion, walk through the checkpoint we were sional English or Arabic word to augment and the interior was so severely vandalized joined by scores of Palestinians and his position. that the family had to move to this apart­ Bedouins carrying bundles, pushing A boy delivered cups of hot, strong ment. On the night of that invasion, the makeshift carts and bicycles. Both sides of Turkish coffee, and as we sipped I was troops gathered some 60 people from near­ the road were lined with improvised shel­ asked for my political analysis. I was by homes and crammed them into one large ters, where entrepreneurial Arabs sold unprepared for the challenge. How could room for three days. The reason: security. snacks, hot drinks, and various merchan- I explain my position-Quaker, Jew,

20 September 2003 FRIENDS JoURNAL American, Palestinian-born- using one­ ... I'm sorry." Although I lived 6,000 syllable words? And then I thought: As a miles away I somehow felt responsible. guest, can I even share with them my crit­ Another contradiction. icism of Arab terrorists along with my Before entering the Amari refugee criticism of Israel? Would I be embarrass­ camp--easily recognized by its high stone ing my host ifI spoke my mind? Would I wall topped with barbed wire-we be endangering myself? detoured into a old stone house. Sitting in To my surprise, I found the words to a large chair was the family patriarch-the explain the futility of an eye-for-an-eye 100-year-old great-grandfather. He was mentality. I suggested that both sides­ dressed in the traditional Arab headgear Muslim and Jew-must put aside the together we am and flowing robe. To my surprise--and hate from the past, to look to a future of maybe his, too--we shared Semitic fea­ peace or they will be murdering not only make it bappen." tures. After the introductions, he beck­ themselves, but their children and their oned me to sit next him and he gently children's children. He laughed. pulled me closer, suddenly kissing me on Although they listened politely and, I both cheeks and promptly began to cry. I think, understood me, several, including don't know why, but I found myself join­ the orator, clearly did not fully agree with ing him in tears. It was as ifwe were long­ me. At one point I cited a survey I had lost relatives and we embraced joyfully read the week before that said 78 percent and tearfully. The whole family stood of both Israelis and Palestinians favor a around beaming as these two bearded settlement of coexistence; it was only the men, he and !-strangers, yet spiritual 22 percent on both sides who thwart the Three of the peace. That impressed the orator, and he lzmiqna sat back, drawing deeply on a new ciga­ children in rette. That freed the others to talk. They front of the helped each other as they groped for impromptu grave site that English words. Some repeated the orator's Ram allah position, others tiptoed around coexis­ residents dug tence--a land with a shared homeland. It in a hospital was a friendly, loud, animated, and deeply parking lot felt discussion. I had not embarrassed my host and I was not going to be stoned for suggesting peace with the Israelis. After two hours, Husan suggested it was time to leave. I shook hands with each man in turn, and said, "Salaam al­ leh'hem, Shalom Alehem''-the Arabic and the Hebrew words for "Peace be with you." They, in turn, repeated both expressions, which I took to mean that first stop was ·the local hospital parking friends-hugged. Asma, who inquired of they did indeed hear my message of lot. Asma pointed out a small garden in me every day during my stay, ''Are you peaceful coexistence. the rear. "They are buried there," she said. happy?" - meaning, "Is everything As we walked to the apartment, I Maysa, with her better English, explained OK?"-turned to me and, seeing my thought about the evening and the con­ that when the soldiers invaded Ramallah, tears, asked, ''Are you happy?" Yes, I told tradictions multiplied. Many of the men many Palestinians were killed and their her, I was happy, but to this day I cannot said they were either unemployed or bodies dumped in the hospital parking explain why. Maybe it was simply that this under-employed and had been for some lot-18 corpses just piled on the pave­ old man was my link to my childhood time. Yet they dressed nattily, lived in ment. After a few days, the bodies began some 60 years ago. homes nearby, chain-smoked, and several to rot in the hot sun. Husan and his We then entered the refugee camp. had cell phones, expensive items in friends asked if the corpses could be The narrow main street had a handful of Palestine. Just more contradictions in this placed in the hospital morgue or buried in sorry-looking shops. Skinny live chickens land that was full of them. a cemetery just a few yards away. The in wooden cages ducked and pecked at The next morning we left on foot for a Israelis refused permission, citing security. the bars. Men stood idly in dusters; oth­ grand walking tour of Ramallah-to the A few days later, the stench was over­ ers sat on makeshift benches. Surely they refugee camps, the UN food distribution whelming and, without asking, the men were unemployed. We walked up the side center, Arafat's headquarters, and the dug two large plots, burying the men in streets that smelled mostly of raw sewage, grand prize: the lzmigna children's 100- one and the women in the other. Some with the occasional relief of cooking fra­ year-old great-grandfather, who heard of time later, they added a stone border and grances. In one doorway children were my visit and insisted on meeting me. Our flowers. I found myself saying, ''I'm sorry playing with a tank and a gun-mounted

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 21 jeep. I hesitated, feeling not meet tonight- maybe guilty, then reluctantly tomorrow. Unfortunately, took their picture. I was to leave in the Asma perceived my morrung. discomfort. "Children I was relieved. don't know any better," The next day I visited she said. I thought of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. the children in Beth­ The visit left me shak­ lehem made mute by en-dedicated as this the Israeli guns. In one Holocaust memorial is to moment guns are a the dead but designed so toy; in another, instru­ that the world will not ments of terror. forget. For days afterward, ~ We approached the all I could think of was ~ UN office. Some 100 the cry of the Holocaust :-t< people-men and survivors and Israeli pio­ J! women-were push- neers: "Never again." Yet I ing and shoving in an An Israeli f.un.ily pimics in Gan Hashlosha, near Jerusalem. had just spent ten days attempt to get through visiting a war zone created a narrow doorway where the food stamps arrived. As usual, we talked politics, and and endorsed, however reluctantly, by were issued. Until recently, only women we agreed on one thing: peace was essen­ those who once cried, "Never again." applied for food stamps; the men were too tial. But-the minister added, waving a I returned home with an invitation to embarrassed. But hunger has a way of finger at me--not peace at any price. He return to Ramallah and conduct Alter­ bending even proud men. Beyond the insisted that Palestinians must be treated natives to Violence Project workshops at doorway, UN clerks processed each per­ fairly, not as third-class citizens. He said the Friends School. And maybe the work­ son's papers, eventually giving food the United States is the only power shops can be expanded to include Arabs stamps to some and turning away others strong enough to impose peace on the and Jews. who were judged not to be poor enough. Middle East. Since returning to the United States, I As we watched the mob scene, an elderly I told him I doubted that. If there is to have been invited to speak to groups. woman approached me. I had a camera be peace, I said, Israelis and Palestinians Here is what I say: around my neck and was talking into a must work it out themselves; they must To Jews: Criticism of Israel does not tape recorder, so she assumed I was either build the bridges, and only the moderates necessarily spring from anti-Semitism. an official or a member of the press­ and the reformers on both sides can do it; Maybe it's time for Jews to examine their either way, I was her target. She grabbed together they must curb the extremists. unconditional approval oflsrael's military the front of my jacket and in halting "How can we curb the extremists?" the occupation in response to Palestinian English begged me to appeal her case to minister asked. "Is not the elimination of terrorists. the UN for food stamps, saying the UN Israel the dream of the extremists? And is To Quakers: Look into your hearts and was not issuing the stamps fairly. She went not the takeover of all of Palestine-­ ask whether you need to reach out to both on for several minutes in a mixture of because the Bible says so-the dream of Palestinians and Israelis in the search for English and Arabic, crying and pulling on the Jewish extremists?" peace. After all, to see only the pain ofone my jacket. Asma came to my rescue, "But still," I responded, "then we must side in this dispute and to ignore the other telling the woman that I could not help. build the bridges." side is to deny the real tragedy. Later, Asma said the woman could be The minister shrugged and rolled his And to Palestinians and Israelis both: It lying. "They do that, you know." eyes. "You are an idealist," he said. is time to look beyond hate and fear and Although most of the homes in the "So," I added, "if you are a realist and to begin to build bridges of peace--and camp were bleak, some were elegant. The I am an idealist-working together we only you can do it. variation baffied me: How can both exist can make it happen." He laughed. As I look back on the trip, it strikes me in a refugee camp? Other refugee camps, Maybe it takes such dialogues to plant that I was able to identifY the two over­ I was told, were Far poorer-where there seeds of peace. powering emotions that nurture the is no hope of escape from poverty. As he was leaving, he reached out to bloody dispute. For the Israelis it is fear­ That night, back in the apartment, shake my hand, saying, "Salaam al­ of terrorists' snipers, of suicide bombers. Asma took me aside and asked if I would leh'hem," in Arabic, and I answered, For the Palestinians it is JUry-triggered like to meet Yasir Arafat. I fumbled, not "Shalom Alehem. Salaam al-leh'hem," He by bulldozed homes, the humiliating tac­ wanting to be ungracious, but also not nodded and smiled again, in seeming tics of the brash young military, attack particularly anxious to get involved in acceptance of my message of unity. helicopters that fire rockets at terrorist and what could become a political problem. Near midnight, after many cell phone innocents alike. The shame of it is that Without waiting for my response, she said calls, Asma told me that Arafat would fear and fury turn the language of reason she'd take care of it. like to meet me but that he was involved and peace into gibberish-a new Tower of After dinner, several guests, including a in emergency negotiations for a ceasefire Babel. After all, this is the land of the minister in the Arafat government, with the Sharon government and could Bible. 0

22 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL "PEACEMONGER?,

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ching the advanced age of 77 the Cold War found me in Berlin, a scene offrequent ves one leave to reminisce. I Cold War confrontations, where Ber­ ru ave been privileged to love and lin Quakers gave strong, practical sup­ be loved. My parents raised 12 children in Berlin port for me as a student newly enrolled during the Depression without a com­ at the Free University. Financial sup­ plaint. I have been a dedicated teacher of by Paul Cates port came in 1961 in the form of a German. We have a cut flower business, part-time position as a youth worker and our goal during recent years has been for the German Protestant Church. to produce a blossom of perfect beauty. in Darmstadt in the early 1950s, I taught One of my first responsibilities in this Success has eluded our grasp while all German at Scattergood School in Iowa. I capacity was to help organize a workcamp around our gardens perfect daisies grow felt my knowledge of the language needed in the U .S. for young Germans at wild in our fields. strengthening, so in the full ofl958 I went Scattergood School. During that summer, For a few short years of my life I was a to Germany for another visit to study word came that the East-West Berlin bor­ "peacemonger"-a title given me by the German literature. But this wasn't my der had been dosed, and a wall was being student newspaper at U niversity ofMaine only reason for going. H ow could 1- built--devastating news for young Ber­ before my visit there in the 1960s. how could anyone-have understood my liners with family on both sides of the After spending two years with Ameri­ second motivation for the move? During divided city. can Friends Service Committee working my service with AFSC, I had been deeply Back in West Berlin, essential avenues moved by experiencing a country ravaged ofcom munication with the East had been PauL Cates is a member ofVassaLboro (Maine) by Allied bombing, but even more by the cut off. My church employers knew that Meeting. The eighth oftweLve children, he grew spiritual devastation wrought by the Nazi as a foreigner I could still travel to the up in East Vassalboro across China Lake ftom government. In the midst of all this I had eastern sector. Would I be willing, they Quaker scholar and activist Rufos jones, who met many Germans who harbored a strong asked, to act as courier for the church, offered him early encouragement. In 1948-49 desire to help build a world in which carrying messages, medications, and a few he spent eight months in Danbury Prison in peace and justice prevailed. I was heading food items to East Berlin? My response Connecticut for nonregistration for the draft as a back to Germany, focal point of the Cold was reluctant assent. Little did I realize conscientious objector. He graduated ftom War, determined to see what one person that the building blocks were being as­ Haverford College in 1950, with Quaker edu­ cator Douglas Steere as his facuLty advisor. After could do to help Germans become a force sembled for my personal involvement in his "peacemonger" years he returned with his for peace in Europe and the world. an attempt to build human bridges across growing family to East VassaLboro, where he has Friends have a sound custom of mov­ the concrete and barbed wire barrier taught German and written locaL-talent plays, ing "when way opens"-and not before. through Berlin. and where he continues to raise cut flowers, Way did not open during my wonderful Surely the best piece of"luggage" I had especiaLly gladiolas. year ofst udy in Marburg. The fall of 1959 brought back from the U.S. were words

FRIENDS j OURNAL September 2003 23 Top: Paul Cates at a children's summer camp in ]arosktvl, Soviet Union. Bottom: Paul and Elisabeth Cates with their son Martin, shortly after Elisabeth and Martin's emigration from East Germany.

i(l from Elise Boulding, spoken after a visit of our Berlin youth with Friends in Ann c3 ~ Arbor: "Paul, this is a wonderful project, ~ helping these young Germans see ~ America. And surely f' ~ you will also travel to ;:I 8 the Soviet Union. ;s Compared to our loca­ ~ tion, the USSR is right ~ on your doorstep!" Re­ Emerging disappointed from the Haus, membering this message I looked around for the security police helped focus my commit­ car. Nowhere to be seen. Had this simple ment to be an instrument move made me complex enough to con­ of peace in the midst of fuse my shadow? the Cold War. Contact A Dutch colleague and I went back on with the Russians seemed Thursday, and were sent to the office of essential, but how could one Sovexportfilm, which supplied Ballad ofa initiate such contact? The Soldier. It was warmly received by our West Soviet film Ballad ofa Sol­ Berlin youth groups. After that, detours to dier gave an appealing pic­ Sovexportfilm during East Berlin visits were ture of young Russians. It frequent, and the Russians were glad to would be helpful, in the midst show us other outstanding films produced of post-Wall tensions, to give during the cultural thaw under Soviet Pre­ our youth groups such a posi­ mier Nikita Khrushchev. Still, there was tive picture ofthe Soviet people. always a certain air ofdoubt and suspicion During 1962 my life became evident in frequent questions by one of the a routine of university lectures, Russians. Surely it was understandable if youth work, and courier trips to their unspoken question was, ''What is the East Berlin. Even the state secu­ real reason why a U.S. citizen living in West rity police shadow following be­ Berlin and working for the German church hind through East Berlin became desires contact with Soviet citizens?" routine. Way did not open to give I was very open in talking about my practical expression to peace con­ rity policemen got out background, my studies, and my youth cerns, always in the back of my and followed her. As a foreigner I was work in Berlin. One day I told Nikolai, a mind but easy to put off during days of somewhat vulnerable, but Elisabeth, as a Sovexportfilm staff member, about our busy activity. GDR citizen, was completely so. I had visit with young workers to Scattergood Then came the day when the East Ger­ been thinking of initiating contact with School the previous summer. Suddenly man security police gave me the kick in the Russians. Wouldn't such contact make Nikolai exclaimed, "Aha! Now I know the pants needed to make Soviet contact me a more complex person in the eyes of who you are!" "Who am I, then?" "You not just desired but immediately urgent. my East Berlin shadows, and indirecdy are Kennedy's agent for the youth of Ber­ Elisabeth Guercler was the secretary in make Elisabeth somewhat less vulnerable? lin!" "What makes you think that?" "If the East Berlin church office of Action "Contact with Russians must start now, you were not Kennedy's agent for the Reconciliation/Service for Peace, which this minute," I thought, so I headed di­ youth of Berlin, you would organize trips organized service projects for young Ger­ recdy down U nter den Linden toward the not just to the U.S. but also to the USSR!" mans in countries ravaged by the Nazis. It House ofGerman-Soviet Friendship. Be­ At last, way was opening! My reply: "If was with Elisabeth that I always left all the ing ratded, I was driving down the wrong you can help us find a travel plan our medications and messages from Bishop side of a divided street, with the shadow young industrial workers can afford, we Scharfs office in West Berlin. On this right behind, also driving illegally. will be ready to leave tomorrow!" particular day she needed to take the train I stopped before the building, entered Through Nikolai's initiative I, on be­ home to Stahnsdorf, south of Berlin. Be­ it, and presented my query at the informa­ half of the Protestant Parish for Youth in hind us was the security police car, two tion desk. Could we rent Ballad ofa Sol­ Industry and its director, Franz von men in it- nothing unusual about that. dier for showing to young West Berlin Hammerstein, came into discussion about Elisabeth got out at the station, but then a workers? The answer was, ''We can't help Soviet travel with a third secretary of the chilling event happened. One of the secu- you. Come back Thursday." Soviet embassy, Julij Kwizinskij. During

24 September 2003 FRIENDS j OURNAL the ensuing months and years a firm and then mayor ofWest Berlin, wanted to talk secret service. We didn't want to get you rewarding friendship with J ulij developed. with the Soviet leader and explain to him in trouble." After he left Berlin, we, his friends, watched the problems and suffering of Berliners, After brief persuasion, the Russians with great interest as he rose through the both East and West, resulting from the carne up and joined the gathering. As they ranks in Soviet diplomacy to be a major Wall, but because of strong objection by sat at my coffee table, Juri Kururev from force for reconciliation and understand­ the opposition Christian Democrats, Willi the Soviet film agency had a twinkle in his ing between East and West: he became Brandt decided to give up the project. eye. "Paul," he said suddenly, "You are the chiefSov iet negotiator with Paul Nitze Soon thereafter, perhaps a day later, a not a Christian!" "Why do you say that?" from the United States in atomic talks in call carne from the bishop's office. Because "You have such good refreshments here, Geneva; then Soviet ambassador to the we assumed that the phones were bugged, and those poor West German agents are German Federal Republic during reunifi­ the call began with the usual standard sitting down there, cold and hungry. If cation negotiations; and then first deputy message from the bishop's elderly secretary: you were a good Christian, you would go foreign minister of the USSR under "Brother Cates, I have such an intense down and invite them to come up!" Eduard Shevardnadze. desire for you." This time there seemed to I had to think fast, and I responded: We had hoped to travel to Russia the be a particular urgency in her voice. Soon "No, that would be a very un-Christian after my arrival at the bishop's of­ thing to do, since it is strictly against their fice the reason for a sense of ur­ protocol to be invited by the person they gency became clear. Fraulein Klatt are investigating." Juri was equally quick explained that since the political in his rejoinder: "Well, ifyo u are a Chris­ leaders of West Berlin were not tian, the least you could do is to go out facing up to their responsibility, on your balcony and sprinkle them with the Church must rake the initiative H oly Water!" to speak with the Soviet leader. I pointed to the bottle of mineral water Could I present this concern to the above the sink, the gift from Nikita Soviet Embassy in East Berlin? Khrushchev himself. "And there," I said The conversation between triumphantly, "is a genuine bottle of holy Nikira Khrushchev and Hans Mar­ water!" rin Helbich, general superintendent "Oh no," replied Juri, "That bottle is of the Protestant Church in Berlin, much too holy. Dishwater would do just took place in an open and frank fine!" (Needless to say, no water, holy or exchange. Khrushchev gave Helbich otherwise, was sprinkled. It would have a case of Soviet mineral water as a taken a fire hose anyway, since their car parting gift, and the next day was on the other side of the street.) Helbich gave me a botrle of the On February 26, 1969, I received the same for my work in arranging richest reward conceivable for all my ef­ the meeting. forts in Berlin. O n that day, after years of I tell this as an introduction to waiting, Elisabeth and Martin, our first The Cates family in 1996 my final story. There was a grow­ child, then rwo years old, were allowed to first time with 20 West Berlin youth, and ing wave of positive support in the West come and join me in West Berlin, their at first the prospects looked bright. Un­ for our West Berlin-Soviet youth exchange. exit having been negotiated through derstandably, however, in Berlin during The movement to organize international Bishop Kurt Scharfs office. the years of the Wall many Families had evenings in West Berlin was a natural Why am I now motivated to share the equivalent of an Aunt Matilde who development. Roland and Margaret War­ these stories from the Cold War era in raised vigorous objection. ''You must nor, ren, AFSC representatives in Berlin, hosted Berlin? In this year there is more open and you may nor travel to Russia! You would the first such evening with attendees from blatant warmongering emanating from the disappear into Siberia and we'd never see Holland, France, Russia, ofcourseAmeri­ U.S. administration than we have experi­ you again!" Thus it was that I boarded the cans and Germans, and perhaps others. enced in a very long rime. I feel moved to Moscow-bound train with only six brave After several such evenings, it was my turn say that there was once a "peacemonger" young industrial workers. I think it was to be the host. Everything was in readi­ who went out to make a small contribu­ early 1963. We all rerurnedsafeandsound ness: beverages, open sandwiches, and des­ tion toward reconciliation in our rime. He from that first great adventure to the USSR serts. What was missing were the Rus­ felt lonely in his undertaking back then, Encouraged, and with mistrust greatly di­ sians. Finally, I became impatient. H ad I but then he fo und that he was working minished, new groups from West Berlin given confusing directions? I went down not just with Quakers but also with Prot­ traveled at least annually to the USSR, three flights ofstairs to the street to inves­ estants, Communists, atheists, and other and during the late 1960s a West Berlin­ tigate. Across from my building sat a So­ people on both sides of the Cold War. USSR exchange program was organized, vier embassy car with the Russians inside. Peacemongering-arrempting to be an with groups traveling in both directions "Why are you waiting down here?" I instrument of God's peace--has irs dis­ once a year or more. asked. "Do you see that car back there?" couraging times, bur also it brought mo­ On the occasion ofN ikita Khrushchev's one asked. "It followed us all the way from ments filled with humor and even great visit to East Berlin in 1965, Willi Brandt, the border. It's surely the West German joy and exhilaration. 0

FRIENDS jOURNAL September 2003 25 a Witness self study course almost no one older than I. The scene re­ on CD Failure to minded me of college, where many of my with classmates were dedicated young activists­ Jim except that while the faces surrounding me LeShana had not aged, I had. Being in a crowd of Disperse joyfully shouting people was an experience I more or less gave up when I moved to the most conservative county in California five by Melinda E. Glines years ago to begin medical school. As a medi­ Video, audio, and cal student in Orange County, I cringed at the text for a 12-lesson survey of the hen I woke up that morning, I had ultraconservative views of many around me, Friends Church from its origins in no intention of getting arrested. I but my hands seemed tied as far as making the 17th century to the present. W coaxed myself out of bed, drank a social change was concerned. Passing my classes cup of tea, and drove to the hospital where I and learning how to be a good doctor was just Includes insightfully written had spent most of the previous nine months about all I could manage. lectures, historical Friends as a family medicine resident. At work there When I started residency, it was a relief to documents and pictures, questions was talk of the bombs dropped in Iraq the return to the liberal atmosphere of Northern for personal reflection and group night before, and in every patient's room the California, but the demands on my time were discussion, and quizzes to help television was on and tuned to coverage of the even greater. The residency I am part of is concepts. ($1 war. Along with a few other residents, I left quite humane compared to other programs, work at lunchtime to join in the peace rally but the very nature of residency is to take produced by FRIENDS CENTER (Evangelical Friends that was gathering downtown. away a person's freedom in order to provide Church Southwest) and distributed by BARCLAY When I arrived, I was surprised at the large maximum exposure to the learning environ­ PRESS • 111 N. Meridian St., #I0 I, Newberg, OR number of people present (several hundred), ment of the hospital. The work we do as 97132 • 800.961.4014 • www.barcl aypress.com and at how much noise they were able to physicians for the underserved is complex and make. Many carried signs that said "War Is challenging, but the hardest part of residency Not the Answer," with the Friends Commit­ is the sheer amount of time it takes, almost tee on National Legislation logo in the bot­ double the hours of a normal workweek. The tom corner. The protest moved along Santa hardest part of taking call is not the tasks of Rosa's main drag and slowed down a few call itself but the fact that, as a resident, you blocks later where the street ends at the en­ cannot leave the hospital for the 30 hours you trance to a large shopping mall. A young man are carrying the pager. For over a day, your with a bullhorn exhorted the crowd to sit time and anention belong to the patients, down and asked the protesters where they nurses, and other doctors who are counting wanted to go next-to the mall, to the army on you to be there, no matter how tired or recruiters' office, or to the headquarters of the cranky you are, or how much you would Admission Office local paper, whose coverage of peace activities rather be at home. 5800 Wesr Friendly Ave • Greensboro, NC 27410 336·316-2100 • 1-800-992-7759 • FAX 336-316-2954 has been scant and negatively slanted. The Throughout my medical training, I have www.guilford.edu crowd favored the mall, but the first ones to been blessed by proud and supportive friends Education Since 1837 reach the doors found them locked. Three and family, but still, the training has taken its teenagers in uniform stared out at us from the toll on my being. In high school and college, I glass-walled taqueria just inside the mall's en­ was interested in a million things: learning to farm & Wilderness trance. I laughed in surprise that our peaceful scuba dive, auditioning for rock bands, dis­ 5ummcr Camr:s and protest was so threatening that the mall would covering feminism, and traveling the world. ~ risk business for the afternoon rather than let After four years of medical school, I was physi­ ~ Year 1\ound rrograms ~ us inside. cally stiffer and slower and internally different - I moved with the crowd down the street to as well. I became quieter about my political - hike mountain trails. the offices of the Press Democrat and then to views, more reluctant to spend time at play, milk a cow • build a cabin paddle a canoe • harvest the recruiters' office, which had also locked its and more set in my views of right and wrong. carrots • create a drum . doors. I waved to the other residents I saw, a Once in a while, at the market or on the street, swim in a mountain lake· few ofwhom had babies in tow, and cried out I will see a young woman full of the best of share stories, songs & laughter • sleep under peace chants with the other marchers: young-woman energy- creative, gentle, the stars • strong, and excited-and I will notice that Support our troops, bring them home-Alive! something inside me has been lost. Challenges and fun for girls and boys in a What do we want? Peace! When do we want So I was surprised to find myself, after (..- v~:s· suppo~::d ~~v~~~~~~~~:; it? Now! several hours of marching and chanting, head­ ~{ ' ~-1jf, simple rustic living, joy Health and education, Not war and devastation! ing not towards home but towards the circle 'l" . ! )'j and adventure. ResiC1ent10l of protesters in the middle of the downtown ~~-.,;-· · camps for ages 9-17 and y camp in Vermont's Green Mountains. Looking around, I saw mohawks, tanoos, intersection waiting to be arrested. There were ~ 65 years Quaker leadership. antique jewelry, backpacks, skateboards, and 40 or 50 men and women, mostly in their teens and twenties, sitting crosslegged in the Farm ~ Wildcrncs .•, r~9 moutl., V T o~o.76 Meliruid E Glines is a member ofStrawberry middle of the street. The local police had been 802/422-3761 email: [email protected] Creek Meeting in Berkeley, Calif joined by the California Highway Patrol in

26 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL surrounding the intersection. Six rows of po­ lice in riot gear marched forward with their black uniforms, facemasks, and shields. The sight of them made my gut clench, though I realized these men were just doing their jobs and the main purpose of riot gear is visual intimidation. I consulted with my co-workers on the sidewalk, who would be doing my work for me the next day if I were detained overnight. They seemed surprised-"You want to get arrested?"-but enthusiastic about my idea to join the sit-in. One of them gave me a homemade sign reading Physicians for Peace, another gave me a jug of water, and a third tossed me his white coat after I was sitting in the circle, an action for which he was promptly surrounded by police. We were taken away one by one, with seemingly endless delays between the arrests. The older protesters were removed first, and at the time I was arrested I was almost the only one over the age of 25. The two policemen carne and asked me for my sign-"So we don't get poked"--one of them explained. They put on plastic handcuffs and led me back down the street to the bus that would take us away. "Hey, I know you!" I said to the man holding my left elbow. He gave me a skeptical look, and I described the prisoner he had brought into our prenatal clinic the week before, when we had held a ten-minute con­ versation in the hallway of the clinic. He gave a quick, furtive smile of recognition. The other policeman brought me to the desk where our names and photographs were taken. "What's your name?" he barked, still holding my elbow. "Doctor?" he added a moment later. The entire process of the arrest and release took only a few hours. Waiting outside the jail was the director of the local peace and justice . . . where each resident center, offering rides home, and a lawyer vol­ enjoys a comfortable, unteering his services for the legal proceedings secure and caring to follow. I arrived home just before dark, giddy with freedom. I had expected to spend environment the night in jail, so cooking dinner for myself and sleeping in my own bed seemed like ... where newcomers marvelous luxuries. I was acutely aware of the quickly feel at home and doctors, nurses, soldiers, and journalists in Iraq who would not be guaranteed either food long-time residents find or rest that night. Pinning my citation to the new delights every day kitchen wall, I saw the words neatly printed­ "Failure to Disperse"-and felt joy and relief that in failing to obey the law I had succeeded in following my heart. 0 A Quaker Sponsored Continuing Care Retirement Community • Independent Living • Assisted Living • Skilled Nursing Care 6300 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 215-844-0700 EQUAL HOUSING Visit our Internet site at: www.stapeley. org OPPORTUNITY

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facing each other and the windows. Some are head. 'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free, looking cowards the threatening sky, others 'tis a gift to come tkwn where we ought to be. I Meetinghouse are reading, and others still are praying. A open my eyes again, studying the simplicity of newborn, Valerie, snores softly in her this meetinghouse. Irs undecorated walls boast grandfather's arms. His white beard gently only one humble picture: a black-and-white by Brynne Howard tickles her face, and his soft humming soothes drawing of another meeting from a different her. In chairs nearly adjacent to the window a time. Six call bookshelves-wooden structures ough the windows I watch the rain middle-aged couple sirs. The man holds the with glass windows----<:ompletely hide the back fall. It comes down gently at first, dust­ woman's hand as she looks forward, seeing wall. Some of the books inside are visibly n g the trees and benches with its nothing; her white cane folded at her feet. She worn and tattered, others new and unused. In sparkle. Then it srarts to pound on the win­ smiles sweetly as she recognizes the sound and the center of the room stands a tall plant. Irs dows, on the benches, on the trees. It becomes smell of the rain. Nearby, a woman stands up leaves are bright green, and the light shim­ a mob of angry men wanting inside. Thunder humbly. She is in her early 80s, her silver hair mers off the waxy surface. explodes and my chair shakes under me. I look clasped tightly at the back of her head. Her I gaze outside again. The storm has passed up as a line of fire stretches across the sky. The dress is modest, the top button ofher cardigan and with it an hour in time. The sun radiates church across the street is lit up in its bril­ forever affiXed. Her lips tremble slightly as she from behind a lingering cloud, and the out­ liance. I turn my glance back into the room, speaks, and her words echo in the minds of side world begins to appear, fresh from irs thankful for the peace and safery it renders. the people when she is finished. As she sirs cleansing. Birds fly from their nests, searching Inside, 44 people sit on old metal fo lding down, a slight noise from the back corner for food. Across the street a damp U.S. flag chairs that creak with the movement of their captures my attention. Four young boys relax waves in the cool breeze. occupants. The people sir in a semicircle, together on the green carpet. They're passing Inside the room, people begin to stir. They around a magazine and giggling. Their laugh­ stand and greet each other, fresh from their Brynne Howard is a student at St. OlafCollege ter does not destroy the silence as one would spiritual cleansing. I stay in my chair a mo­ in Minnesota, where she is active in the peace expect, but enriches it. ment longer and reflect on how often I've sat community. She is a member of Des Moines I lean back in one of the two reclining in this exact spot, in this exact moment of the Valley (Iowa) Meetin~ and currently attends chairs. I close my eyes, soaking in the mo­ week, cherishing the simple pleasure ofa rainy Canon River (Minn.) Meeting. ment. As I sit there, a soft melody plays in my day at meeting. 0

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NEWTOWN FRIENDS Friends for 350 Years SCHOOL By Howard Brinton. Revised by Margaret Hope Bacon. Pendle Hill Publications, 2002. 2nd Edition. 348 pages. $16/paperback. Pity the poor soul unwise enough to attempt a book on contemporary Quakerism, or even more daringly, "Quaker beliefs." First, the enormous diversity of "The accomplishments of adults Friends means that any generalization must be hedged by numerous qualifi­ begin as the dreams of children. cations and exceptions. Then, one must Newtown Friends is a place deal with a range of politically and where dreams begin." theologically explosive topics, numer­ - NFS Mission Statement ous ofwhich have shown the potential to split Friends, from the local to the international level. After that, one faces Pre,K to Grade 8 the blessing and the curse of the hyper­ OPEN HOUSE literacy and generally high intellectual aspirations of Friends. We are a read­ October 26, 2003 ing people, and one has to assume that 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. one's work will be scrutinized by nu­ For further information, merous critical, and sometimes hostile, eyes. par excellence. Thus, when the book was pub­ call 215-968-2225, or visit Then there is the Quaker commitment lished, it attracted considerable attention us at newtownfiiends.org to truth, which will impel some of those read­ among Friends, and largely favorable reviews. ers if they detect any error, no matter how To be sure, the work has its limitations. minor, to point it out-not always gently. From the first page, Howard Brinton made it And because Friends are a relatively small dear that he was not going to try to deal with group, one is often writing about and re­ all varieties ofF riends: sponding to colleagues, associates, personal friends, and even relatives. Yet in this spiritual Quakerism is here defined as the type of Support minefield, Friends continue to try to explain faith and behavior which developed in the QUAKER HOUSE themselves and their faith to each other and Society of Friends during its first century Fayetteville/Ft. Bragg, N.C. the larger world. and a half. This type, allowing for cultural Without question, one of the most suc­ changes, still persists in many areas and is A front-line Friends Peace witness cessful of these attempts is now half a century today experiencing a rebirth. The theory and Gl Counselling, Draft/CO Information old- Howard Brinton's Friends for 300 Yea~: practice of the Society of Friends during the Peace Research, Education & Action The History and Beliefi ofthe Society ofFriends later periods of its history can correctly be since George Fox Started the Quaker Move­ termed "Quakerism" in so far as the essential 223 Hillside Ave., Fayetteville, NC 28301 ment--that was first published in 1952. purpose is preserved. 910-323-3912. www.quakerhouse.org Howard Brinton's roots were deep in Phila­ [email protected] delphia Yearly Meeting (both Orthodox and He qualifies this view in a vital way by Chuck Fager, Director Hicksite), and he was a product of Haverford continuing: "The preservation of the original College, where Rufus Jones deeply influenced purpose is not the same as the preservation of him. He went on to teach at Pickering, Olney, the visible form in which that purpose was Guilford, and Earlham, taking a doctorate in first expressed." Outward forms could change, What it means to be physics in 1925. World War I brought him he wrote, but the intentions and vision of the SELECT the opportunity to work for the AFSC and first Friends could be preserved. Curious also his introduction to Anna Cox. Their After 1800, however, there appeared "in Inrellectual marriage may have been the most remarkable some large areas of Quakerism . . . not a Articulate Quaker union since George Fox wed Marga­ revival of the original faith, but a movement Accomplished ret Fell. A sojourn on the West Coast from strongly colored by a different type of religion Athletic 1928 to 19 36 led them to found what would with a different method and basis." Howard Diverse eventually become Pacific Yearly Meeting. Brinton had in mind, of course, the pastoral Then in 1936 they returned East to direct movement that came to characterize the ma­ Pendle Hill, where both made a deep impres­ jority ofFriends in North America and around FRIENDS SELECT sion on a generation of Friends. In the eyes of the world after 1890. Through his experi­ many Friends, Howard Brinton, whose inter­ ences at Guilford and Earlham and his time in Pre-K Through Twelfth Grade ests in philosophy and religion were as deep as California, he had more acquaintance with 17th and The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103 his academic career in physics, was a Quaker pastoral Quakerism than most unprogrammed 2 15-561-5900 ext. 104 • www.friends-selecr.org

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 29 G Friends, and in retrospect it seems a pity that asset. I myself disagree with a few of Margaret F he did nor grapple more with the question of H ope Bacon's notes, such as her statement whether or nor it could be reconciled with that "only a few Q uaker homes participated s primitive Q uakerism . Like his mentor, in the Underground Railroad." And Chuck H oward Brinton saw the modernist move­ Fager is correct that she may overstate the Germantown Friends School ment among Friends that began to emerge in degree to which groups like the FWCC have (215) 951-2346 the 1890s under Rufus Jones's leadership as a been able ro draw in Evangelical Friends. Please come to our Open Houses: return to early Friends beliefs, a conclusion O n the other hand, I found her overall • Oct. 4, Saturday, 2-4 p.m. that was and is open to debate. For these portrait in the "Historical Update" and her (registration ends at 3 p.m.) reasons, Friends for 300 Year.r did not have annotations largely accurate. It might have • Nov. 11, Tuesday, 8:30a.m. nearly as much effect on programmed as on been better ifshe had stated up from that she • May 14,2004, Friday, 8:30 a.m. unprogrammed Friends. would continue H oward Brinton's focus on Among unprogrammed Friends, the im­ unprogrammed Friends as they are the most pact of this book has been profound. Its vir­ likely readers of an updated version. But the tues are many. Howard Brinton wrote clearly basic outlines are sound: the movement to­ and elegantly, and this volume provides a ward reunion in some yearly meetings; the coheren t and readable overview of Quaker formation of Friends United Meeting and history. It sets Q uaker practices and testimo­ Evangelical Friends International; the stag­ nies, ranging from worship to business meth­ nant numbers in North America; and the ods to simplicity to peace, in both a historical tensions Friends have experienced over sexu­ and a theological context. It ought to be un­ ality, abortion, universalism, and AFSC. thinkable that it should ever go our of print, In short, this edition could have been bet­ and it has been reprinted by Pendle H ill sev­ ter. O ne hopes that the next printing will eral times in the last half century. correct the most egregious factual errors. Bur Come and get a This time, however, the volume was up­ while these problems may be an occasion for new view on life 1 dared, prefaced with a sketch of Howard embarrassment, they are nor one for shame. Brinton's life and an evaluation of the impact Despite irs faults, this is a volume that makes a ~ of his work, adding notes in the few places real contribution. where he had proved to be in error or where -Thomas D. Hamm X KlRJ

30 September 2003 F RIENDS JouRNAL Residential and provocative reading. Philip Gulley is at his best when he lets his srories speak for them­ Assisted Living selves, which most of these do. It's too bad since 1891 that he occasionally lapses into telling us what the point is, thereby robbing us of the epiphanies of grace that they would normally In addition to The Hickman's have. My only other criticism, and it's minor, is that Signs and Wonders is billed as a novel, "not too big, not too small" which it isn't. There's no unifying thread or size, Bill and Becky Mcilvain plot. Instead, it's more of a collection of Har­ mony tales. T hat's not bad; it worked for liked the retirement Jessamyn West's Friendly Persuasion, and it community's in-town location. works here, too. - Brent Bill "There are so many things Brent Bill is the executive vice president of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations, you can do within walking assistant book review editor of FRIENDS JouR­ distance. We're still driving NAL, and an attender ofFirst Friends Meeting now, but the day will come. ... " in Indianapolis. Nudged by the Spirit: Quaker-Sponsored • Homelike • Affordable • Close to Town • Welcoming Diversity Stories of People 400 N. Walnut St., West Chester, PA 19380 610-696-1536 Responding to the Still, e-mail: [email protected] Small Voice of God www.thehickman.org By Charlotte Lyman Fardelmann. Pendle Hill Publications, 2001. 275 pages. $171 paperback. Nudged by the Spirit is a gently powerful book of leadings and discernment. It traces the stories of 15 Friends who have struggled A tradition of excellence in an to discern God's will and follow leadings onro HARVARD farms, prisons, schools, prayer communities, interdenotninational setting and hospices from Auschwitz, Harlem, and DIVINITY Nagasaki, ro Newton, Massachusetts, and Barnesville, Ohio. Included are School of the "IH'l ul !\~._·...,~ ill!• t'"' 1 Spirit co-founder Kathryn Damiano, Pendle SCHOOL \\< HJ\t'll-... "'!Ill lit ·..., in 1\~,_·lr~H ll) 1 111 .'.~1.1111 Hill sages Bill and Fran Taber, and Quaker ( t'lllt'l I( I) !lil' "tlh.h I )I\\. Hll [\,·!1::11 111' 1 healer John Calvi, among others. ! i 111 !,!lt\ \ ., :II [\, ·i i·--!H jll .I Ill I 1 1 Jill!\ l !It As Quaker historian Marry Grundy points "Jtitlt ·JjJ \I >lit'.J .'h·inity Sdwol. junct to Quakerism 101 courses. I~ l>i\'inity :\n·mt<.' Degree programs: <:amhridgc .. \1:\ 0215X -Ellen Michaud M.Div., M.T.S., Th.M., & TI1.D. ((ll!) ~9'5-'5""'96 Ellen Michaud is the book review editor of http:/ / www.hd-;.han·ard.t·du FRIENDS j OURNAL and a member of South Starksboro Meeting in Vermont.

FRIENDS JoURNAL September 2003 31 News In the face of mounting tensions between treatment ofwomen in prison in its consider­ the United States and North Korea, religious ation of the application of UN standards and leaders from South Korea and the United norms in criminal justice. -Nick McGeorge, States joined humanitarian expertS on June FWCC delegation member, promote a peaceful solution to the crisis. They pressed for the prompt reconvening of As a result ofa workshop last October, taught CELEBRATING 217 YEARS talks with North Korea and an end to the by Bill Galvin from the Center on Con­ of threat of preemptive force. As those talks ad­ science and War, Summit (N.J.} Meeting QUAKER EDUCATION dress North Korea's nuclear program, they has organized a Clearness Subcommittee on also must address the North's security con­ Conscience and War, under the care of its cerns and economic and humanitarian needs, Ministry and Counsel. The subcommittee the religious leaders said. "A dear statement plans to encourage teens in the meeting to Kinderga rten through Grade 12 from the White House that North Korea will think about their feelings regarding conscien­ not be attacked will establish a political cli­ tious objection to military service, and offer mate for progress in negotiations," they said. instruction on preparing a file to suppott a The appeal is the result of a three-day consul­ CO claim. The subcommittee aJso will estab­ 222 East 16th Street ration on the Korea crisis, sponsored by the lish communication channels, through New New York, NY 10003 National Council of Churches in the USA York Yearly Meeting or through the GI and Church World Service. The consultation Hotline, for those seeking assistance from out­ (212) 979-5030 was attended by almost 80 Korea experts from side the meeting. -Summit (NJ) Meeting www.friendsseminary.org churches, humanitarian agencies, the United newsletter Nations, academia, and other sectors from the United States, South Korea, Canada, and other Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns, at Founded 1786 countries. Visit . -Carol the Midwinter Gathering from February Fouke, NCC/CWS 15-17, decided to rename their community "Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans­ The Bible Association ofFriends Citing a violation of international law, AFSC gender, and Queer Concerns." A name in America challenged a UN Security Council resolu­ change, intended to reflect the community's tion granting the United States and its allies identity and commitments more clearly, since 1829 has offered Bibles, NewTestaments, and Portions free or at cost to Friends free hand over the government, oil resources, had been under prayerful consideration for institutions, individuals, and others worldwide .. reconstruction, and aid in postwar Iraq. AFSC more than two years. Visit . "This resolution relegates the UN to a role that is largely symbolic.... For the United The Nonviolent Peaceforce is issuing 100,000 ._p.w>gl').'- States and Great Britain-as belligerent pow­ Peace Bonds that will sell for $10 each. All ers-to appropriate or otherwise dispose of proceeds will go toward the development of /&. -ft. ~\ the oil or other narural resources of Iraq di­ the Nonviolent Peaceforce and funding for rectly is a grave breach ofThe Hague Conven­ their pilot project in Sri Lanka. In 2010, ~ '1: - tion N (Article 55) and the Fourth Geneva when the bonds mature, investors will have a Convention (Article 147)." The May 22 UN functioning peaceforce that will help defuse conflict around the world. Each investor will 17~0 resolution also lifred sanctions imposed on "When we're gone, our hearts wiU stm belong" the country since the early 1990s that have receive a Peace Bond certificate. Visit . -Peace Piece, Pre-K through 6th Grade frastructure. However, human rights issues Philadelphia Yearry Meeting, june 2003 Pre-K opening September 2003 continue to be a major concern. For informa­ tion on AFSC's work in Iraq visit . 19462 • on the occasion of his retirement as director The particular needs of women prisoners of the AFSC office in Washington, D.C. were highlighted in a statement made on Before joining the AFSC staff, James Matlack Friends Committee on f RIENDS CoMMilTEE ON behalfofFriends World Committee for Con­ spent two terms as vice chairman of its na­ National Legislation sultation at the 12th Meeting of the UN tional board of directors. He was also presid­ nFc www.fcnl.org Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Com­ ing clerk of the Nationwide Peace Education 1-800-630-1330 mission, held in Vienna, Austria, May 13- Committee. In 1979, he was a member of the UNL 245 Second St., NE 22, 2003. The statement addressed the need AFSC delegation to Vietnam and Cambodia, Washington, DC 20002 for rehabilitation and training programs, the first Western group to visit Phnom Penh We seek a world free of war & the threat of war healthcare, and attention to the children of after the faU of the Khmer Rouge. James women prisoners. A majority of women in Matlack has traveled to the Middle East, Cen­ We seek a society with equity & justice for all prison have one or more children under 16 tral America, and Mexico on behalf ofAFSC. We seek a community where every person's years old. In addition, proponionate to the In 1983, he became director of the AFSC potential may be fulfilled need, there are far too few resources for preg­ Washington office, where he has worked on a We seek an earth restored.... nant and nursing women prisoners. FWCC wide range of AFSC domestic and interna­ urged the Commission to bear in mind the tional issues. -AFSC

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FRIENDSJ ouRNAL September 2003 33 Bulletin Board Upcoming Events •September 26-28--Missouri Valley Friends Conference

Kendal-Crosslands residents nurture an •October 2-5-German Yearly Meeting array of life-affirming opportunities: •October 9-13-Friends Committee on •140 resident-directed interest groups Unity w ith Nature annual gathering. • lifelong learning at the University of . Delaware and West Chester University •October 10- 12-Amnesty International's • two 11,000-volume, resident-run libraries annual National Weekend of Faith in Action • 300 acres with trails, woods, ponds on the Death Penalty, to take place in religious • on-site concerts and lectures communities throughout the country. If you • local community volunteer opportunities or your meeting wish to participate, contact Named as one of the nation's top 25 coordinator Kristin Houle at . Visit . Quaker-related. Full services, lifetime •October 10-13-Young Quakes Confer­ restraint-free health care. ence, an experience in the unprogrammed Friends tradition to explore Quaker Biblical J. 610-388-7001 • 1-800-216-1920 P.O. Box 100 • Kennett Square. PA 19348 www.kcc.kendal.org Opportunities/Resources •The United States Institute of Peace is ac­ cepting applications for fellowships to study issues related to the prevention, management, and resolution of international conflicts. Fel­ lows will pursue their research at the institute, in Washington, D.C., for up to ten months. Scholars, policy makers, journalists, and for­ The wholesome alternative: eign affairs professionals from all nations are eligible. Deadline for applications: September an intellectually challenging college 15. For further details visit . Registrations received by September 15 will receive a discount. No registrations will be accepted after October 15. •Friends Schools Day of Peace will take place in Philadelphia, Pa., on April 4, 2004. If you would like to be part of the coordinating committee, or if you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tom Hoopes at or John McKinstry at . Friends at Olney Friends School a great distance from Philadelphia are warmly www.olneyfriends.org encouraged to sponsor events on the same day, to create a shared day of peace education 1-800-303-4291 and peace celebration that stretches across the country. 34 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL Afghanistan continued from page 9

One program which CARE discussed in 1998-99 but unfortunately never managed to develop and get funded was a forum for dialogue between Taliban scholars of Islamic law and scholars of international human rights. It would have been designed to explore in depth the basis of controversial Taliban positions, and to explore the commonalties and conflicts between shari' a and internation­ al human rights charters and law. In that many of the most extreme Tali ban policies sprang more from Pushtun culrure than Islamic teaching, such a forum would have tried to help Taliban leaders to acknowledge and deal with the non­ Islamic basis of many of their beliefs. It could have been a bridge between the reclusive Taliban and a poorly informed outside world. Especially during the present adminis­ tration, the United States seems deter­ mined to force its will by preemptive use of precision-guided weapons of signifi­ cant destruction and quite explicitly not by treaties, courts, and procedures of international law. The weapons and the destruction are impressive, but the long­ term consequences highly questionable. We in the humanitarian community may not have preferred the "American War" as a response to Afghanistan's prob­ lems. But it has happened and we are left • Concern to make a dltrer.nce In tht wort& with its aftermath and questions of what ~ and to do now. tor pe1ce juatict I have joined other voices in calling for an international security force to help • Academic integrity In the .-rch for truth Afghanistan develop and deploy a multi­ ethnic, nonfactional Afghan security force throughout the country. I do not think that peace and security can ultimately Winter Preview Day: January 19. 2004 come to Afghanistan until the warlords and private militias are replaced with a Junior Preview Day: March 8. 2004 professional, disciplined, multiethnic, nonfactional, paid security force, and in ... or call us to arrange your own visit! Afghanistan this will probably include an army. I do see a legitimate role in Afghanistan for a disciplined force with guns for some time. But I also believe that ultimately sustainable peace will depend COLLEGE on offering a better life without armed coercion for generations of people who 801 National Road West have known little else. And that can only Richmond. IN 47374-4095 come through a patient and sustained 765/ 983-1200 effort of engagement-and a determina­ tion to seek and "see truth" in the imagery www.earlham.edu ofHafez. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 35 Milestones Marriages/Unions Moses-Brandt-judith A (Jude) Brandt and Grace L. Moses, on May 31, 2003, at and under the care of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, of which Jude is a member and Grace an anender. Deaths Cope--Anne Davis Cope, 56, on March 24, 2003, PENN CHARTER in Cornwall, Pa. She was born on June 29, 1946, in West Chester, Pa., the daughter ofpub lic school The oldest Quaker school in the nation, teachers Jane D. Stanton Cope and Robert W. William Penn Charter School embraces Cope. With an outstanding memory for detail, Anne could recite bits of poetry or song pertaining tradition and welcomes innovation. to whatever topic was at hand. As a teenager she spent a summer living and working on her aunt and uncle's farm, helping to care for her younger Essential Quaker principles and practice cousins. Later, as a mother, she would open her guide Penn Charter, a Friends school by home to her children's boarding school friends. A 1963 graduate of Schwenksville High School, she birthright and conviction. Within a diverse anended Wilson College for two years before trans­ community, we engage students in a ferring to University of Pennsylvania, where she stimulating and rigorous educational studied German and History. As a young adult Anne spent six weeks on an AFSC Peace Caravan program. We foster academic discipline traveling to different cities and talking about peace and intellectual curiosity to prepare issues. At an AFSC weekend workcarnp she met graduates for higher education and for life. Peter Ogle, who became her husband and the father of her two children. After her separation from Peter, Anne met Hi Dory, with whom she Call to visit our 44-acre campus in East Falls: shared a passion fo r peace and equality issues. They 215-844-3460 were together for more than 17 years, living in an 3000 West School House Lane, Philadelphia old C hadds Ford farmhouse that provided Anne www.penncharter.com with many opportunities to develop her fiX-it skills. Anne was an indexer of medical books and jour­ nals, working part-time while raising her children, then full-time after Hi died. She met her last partner, David Amundson, through her indexing work, and they lived and worked together for 13 years. Anne lived simply and frugally, making the Encourage several inner,city basic beautiful. She trusted way would open, and approached life with the courage co make the best Q uaker schools. Your gifts help the of things. She sang folk songs about peace and schools create endowment via justice and played piano, guitar, and recorder. She created handmade treasures, such as intricate pic­ QICSEF ture sweaters and mittens for her three grandchil­ T ax deductible. dren. Her whole-wheat bread was an essential part No operating expenses of any potluck, and she made the past come alive with her stories about local and family history. In Contact: 2002 Anne wrote, "I have been lucky in life. I've always had a roof over my head, clothes on my QUAKER INNER,CITY SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT FUND back, food, a safe place to be, and interesting things 152 Crosslands Drive, Kennett Square, PA 19348 • (610) 388-6725 to do. I had good health until leukemia struck. I have had people around me whom I have loved and who loved me. I have no complaint against fate." Anne is survived by her partner, David Amundson; children, Margaret S. Ogle Welsh and parrner Scott W. Welsh, and Jonathan K Ogle and partner Heather R. Gosse; stepchildren, Carol ~Moving? D. Dory and Riley B. Dory; grandchildren, Ben­ jamin P. Welsh, Stephen J. Welsh, and Anna K Please let us know 8 weeks in advance. Send us your address Welsh; and a sister, Esther S. Cope. label if possible. Otherwise, be sure to include your name Ferguson-Meta Ruth Ferguson, 95, on March 7, and old zip code as well as your new address. f

36 September 2003 FRIENDS JoURNAL could dearly recall telling herself, "I mustn't hate her. I must still love her. I am a Quaker, and Quakers don't hate." Meta Ruth earned a bachelor's degree at Friends University, expecting to become a teacher. When no positions were available, she Year2004 found her true calling in religious education. For the rest ofher life, she worked among Quakers and Quaker Motto Calendar other religious groups, developing curricula and materials, leading workshops, teaching, writing, and studying, and becoming acquainted with Friends and other religious workers throughout Inspirational messages the country. At home in major cities and small for each month communities throughout the U.S., Meta Ruth never drove a car. She attended Hartford Theo­ Since 1884 logical Seminary and was active in Friends World Committee for Consultation, as well as in yearly meetings wherever she lived. In her later work, 25 calendars $21.00 Open your child's which took her to almost every yearly meeting, she 25 calendars & envelopes $23.00 said she had a special feeling when visiting Inter­ mind to the world mountain Yearly Meeting. Meta Ruth, who wrote poetry throughout her life, became senior editor of Send orders with check to: ABINGTON the Penn Series, widely used in children's religious The Motto Calendar FRIENDS education throughout North American Q uaker­ SCHOOL ism, and editor of the "Children's Page" in ():taker P.O. Box 59 Lifo magazine. In this work she used the rich Douglassville, PA 19518 A Quaker coeducational background of family stories from her childhood, day school grades covering incidentS in the Revolutionary War, the Preschool through 12 C ivil War, and the journey of two generations MottoCal @aol.com moving to the West. In Chicago she created a series for radio and television. Although she main­ Telephone: 301-320-3931 For more information, call tained membership in Evanston (Ill.) Meeting, 215-886-4350 when she retired and moved to Southern Califor­ Fax: 301-320-7370 575 Washington Lane • Jenkintown, PA 19046 nia she became an active part of La Jolla Meeting. There she served on several committees of Pacific Yearly Meeting and became deeply involved with the Quaker spiritual quest, as well as with religion and psychology groups. She was interested in art, and took arr courses throughout her life; many Listening Tour on Gay and Lesbian Concerns Friends treasure her carefully drawn greering cards. H er life reflected her belief in the divine seed in in the U.S. Religious Society of Friends every person. She leaves no survivors. Gardener- Laurie Gardener, 51, onApril20, 2003, What can Friends say about gay and lesbian issues? What are our beliefs in Portland, Oreg. T he oldest of five children, she regarding family, sexuality, and dose relationships? How are we called to was born Laurie Louise Foster in Longview, Wash., minister to one another? What is the experience of gay and lesbian Friends but changed her name ro Gardener because she believed thar she was her besr self when she was in our churches and meetings? How shall we discern God's guidance with working in her garden. In the early 1970s Laurie regard to issues that divide us deeply? arrended Mulmomah Meeting. She mer ]ami Hart in Redding, Calif., and they were firsr married on Interviews with individuals will be conducted in Iowa, Oregon, Seprember 1, 1976, through rhe Redding Metro­ politan Community C hurch. On September 2, California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio/Indiana in Fall2003. 1989, Laurie and Jami had a ceremony of re­ Friends will be invited to reflect on their experiences, convictions, and marriage under the care of Mulmomah Meeting, leadings, and to situate these in relation to Quaker testimonies and to their which welcomed Laurie as a member in 1994. She was acrively involved in AFSC and was a member faith and spiritual practice. of the executive commirree of the Pacific North­ west region ofAFSC. Commirred ro social change, Please contact Kirsten Bohl at [email protected] or 919-489-3280 Laurie was a founding member of the Women's if you would like to arrange an interview. Letters responding to the Booksrore Collective in Portland, Oreg., and was instrumental in serring up Feminist Women's questions above are also welcomed by email, or may be sent to 2745 H ealth Centers there and in Redding, Calif. A Dogwood Road, Durham, NC 27705. Interviews and letters will be union member and shop steward, she worked for ten years as a case manager for homeless people and compiled into a book that reflects as fully as possible the diversity of Friends' for reenage mothers ar rhe Portland YWCA, and views on gay and lesbian issues. she taughr cusromer service skills ro unemployed teen parentS. Most recently she was a child support This project is made possible by grants from two Quaker agenr for the Oregon Srate Depattmenr of] ustice. Laurie's wisdom and generosity rouched many organizations, the Lyman Fund and the Clarence and Lilly Pickett Fund for grareful people, who remember her as a wise woman Quaker Leadership. and a moral compass. Her fin e mind evinced irself in the wide range of her reading choices and her

FRIENDS J oURNAL September 2003 37 For Students with Learning Differences Multisensory teaching strategies the hilly streets, and on winter mornings she was for diverse learning styles dry wit. A few weeks before she died, Laurie said she wanted her obituary to read: "Laurie Louise able ro ride a sled all the way ro school. She Gardener, born September 2, 1951. I was here, I particularly enjoyed her teenage years in Lead, DELA\\ 'ARE VALLEY was queer, and it was imporrant to me, my dear." where almost evetyone was working-class, and there Her influence on her extended family is indelible; were so many nationalities that all the kids were FRIENDS SCHOOL to her four siblings, she will remain their rock and included equally in the fun. After high school she their Bible. Laurie is survived by her spouse, Jami went to Universiry of Minnesota to become a H art; her daughter, Felicia Ann Nelson; a stepson, teacher. While there she met Ed Thatcher. During Jon Hart; her mother, Virginia Mae (Baugh) Fos­ World War II Ed was sent ro Civilian Public ter; four siblings, Lois Marie Foster, Julia Lynn Service in a camp near Ames, Iowa, and after Spatz, Tracy Ann Livermore, and Robert Laurence graduation Moey fou nd her first reaching position Foster Jr.; two granddaughters; two stepgrand­ in Ames near his CPS camp, where Ed's buddies helped the couple create a simple wedding cer­ Prospective Parent Open House children; and two nieces. She was predeceased by emony. After the war the young f.unily moved dates for 2003-o4: her lather, Robert Laurence Foster. from place to place following Ed's employment at October 22 • November 12 Nicholson-Mary Ann Lippincott Nicholson, 76, December 10 • February 11 various colleges. Moey recalled a period of unem­ on February 3, 2003, in Kennetr Square, Pa. Mary ployment as one of the few difficult times in her March 10 • Apri114 • May 19 Ann was born to Albert and Marion Warner Professional Open House dates: life. T he fu.rn ily spent a year in St. Paul while Ed Lippincott in Philadelphia, Pa., on November 16, October 15 • January 14 went to library school, and then moved to Eugene, 1926. She grew up on a farm in Marlton, N.J., and Oreg. Moey looked upon pregnancy and child­ in that environment her lively spirit, practical abili­ birth as a great adventure and enjoyed her role as a College Preparatory • Grades 7-12 ties, and keen sense of propriety took shape. She mother. At that time in Eugene the fledgling Friends • Summer Program loved spending rime in the woods where she was meeting was rapidly growing, and Moey became inspired to create imaginative dramas with imagi­ active in plans for a new building at the same time I<) F,1,t Cl'ntr.d .\\l' o l'.wli. I'\ 1 9 : ~o1 nary playmates. She graduated from George School she and Ed bought the house that was to be their h 11 l-h jl l- Jl.)! l o \\\\\\ .1h h .org in 1944 and from Earlham College in 1948, where home for more than half a cenrury. Moey's inter­ 1 1!1\jHI' ~~h !It d td! ~~11 1 11t" ~ll ~ _ 1 ' she mer James Nicholson, with whom she found a ests included service on the League of Women 1 I\\ () I dt )( k-. lllflll t lit I' II ,]1 I 1.1\11 --Ll \• HI common interest in the college theater. They were Voters, AFSC, and the Klamath Indian Commit­ married in 1950 and lived briefly in Pittsburgh, tee at the time of the dissolution of the tribe. She Pa., and Richmond, Va., before settling in Belmont, opened her home ro many visitors, including tem­ Mass., where they lived for three decades. They porarily homeless folks and troubled young people were active members of Friends Meeting at Cam­ needing welcome. She was active in Eugene Meet­ Guidelines for Writers bridge, in which she was involved in the commit­ ing, North Pacific Yearly Meeting, and Quarterly tees concerned with its First-day school, library, Meeting, sometimes taking the role of clerk. She T he articles that appear in FRIENDS and the maintenance ofi ts hospitable Friends Cen­ was part of the committee that worked for eight JouRNAL are freely given; authors ter. After graduating from college she taught for years to write the NPYM Faith and Practic~. After receive copies of the issue in which two years at Moorestown (N.J.) Friends School, returning to work as a substirute teacher and tak­ and later in schools in Pittsburgh and Belmont. their article appears. Manuscripts ing courses to become a counselor, Moey worked She brought theater into her classrooms and wrote submitted by non-Friends are at Planned Parenthood and for family counseling and published numerous plays for children that services. She reluctantly retired early to travel with welcome. We prefer articles written in were performed in schools and children's theaters. Ed when he retired, to Nigeria, England, New a fresh , nonacademic style, using Mary Ann's interest in genealogy began when she Zealand, and throughout Europe. When her own language that clearly includes both started to raise her own f.unily. Evenrually she parents retired they bought the house next door so compiled extensive histories of her f.unily and her sexes. We appreciate receiving their daughter could help them in their old age. husband's. Increasingly, she was consulted for her When her mother died while Moey was reading Q uaker-related humor. expertise in Q uaker records. She wrote numerous aloud to her, she sensed the expansion of her •:• m aximum 8-10 double-spaced, articles for genealogical publication. She was an mother's spirit. This experience contributed to active volunteer fo r many years in the New En­ typewritten pages (2,500 words) Moey's unwavering belief that death is a passage gland Historic Genealogical Sociery, which pub­ •:• include referen ces for all quotations into something eternal, and not to be feared. Moey lished her book on the fu.rnily of Daniel Shays of was predeceased by her husband, Ed Thatcher. She •:• author's name and address should "Shays' Rebellion" fame ar the time of the bicen­ is survived by her children, Carl, Ellen, Osa, and appear on the manuscript tennial of the Constitution. In 1994, the Sociery Jay Thatcher; and eight grandchildren. •:• for the full guidelines, see awarded her a lifetime membership ro honor her service. Mary Ann was quiet, resourceful , alert to what ought to be done in any siruation, and deter­ We welcome Milestones from families and Submissions are acknowledged mined to avoid imposing upon others. H er opin­ meetings. For births/adoptions and mar­ immediately; however, writers m ay ions were felt and expressed with conviction. She riages/unions, please include dates, loca­ was blessed with a ready sense of humor and a wait several months to hear whether tions, and meeting affiliations of the par­ hearty laugh. While subject ro a long, progressive ties. For death notices, include date and their manuscrip ts h ave been accepted. illness affecting both body and mind, she died at place of birth and death, meeting affilia­ home, as was her wish. She is survived by her For more information contact husband, James (Tim) N icholson, and three daugh­ tion, highlights of the person's life as a Robert Dockhorn, Senior Editor. ters, Suzanne Nicholson, Betsy Nicholson, and Quaker, and full names ofsurvivo rs (m ax. Nancy N icholson, and their fu.rnilies. 600 words). Please include your contact information. M ilestones may be edited for FRIENDS I216Arch st.,2A Thatcher-Gsa Mon~tte (Moey) Hunkins Thatcher, length, and we cannot guarantee publica­ Philadelphia, PA 8 1, on February 21, 2003, in Eugene, Oreg. Moey JOURNAL 19107-2835 was born in Hot Springs, S. Dak., to Ralph and tion date. For full guidelines visit , e-mail or see p. 2 for other E-mail: [email protected] small mining town. Moey had fond memories of contact information. life in Lead, where her only ups and downs were 38 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL The Westtown School Community Seeks Quaker Students

F RIENDS j OURNAL September 2003 39 uu1aeune Insurance IS Amenca s 1eaa1ng Insur­ er of religious institutions, and has been pro­ create victims. So we advocate using service teding Friends houses of worship and schools and diplomacy in our diligent search for personal and societal preventive measures. for more than 20 years. In fad, since 1979, I learned about Afghanistan during 15 GuideOne has been the Friends Insurance years spent in India. Its efforts fo r education Group property and casualty insurer of choice. and progress have long been unable to alter an essentially violent society. Why then To arrange far a FREE premium quotation, and would U.S. bombing succeed? to learn more about GuideOne Insurance, call r. 2Q What I hope and work for is that our 1-877-448-4331 ext. 5429. GutdeOne· own violent society wiiJ recognize the f nsu r ~nce influence of the profitable military-industrial complex. It promotes a sorry reliance on force as a solution to complex problems. Quaker efforts, by contrast, can influence neighbors, friends, and even our Weeklong Courses representatives to give peaceful means more of a chance. October 19-24 Helen D Corneli Food that Nourishes Body and Spirit: Santa Fe, N . M. Cooking at Pendle Hill with Carol Sciarra There's hope in the Quaker October 26-31 VlSlOll Visions that Scatter in a Whirlwind: Scott Simon's article (F]May) presents a The Poetry of Octavio Paz challenge to Friends. I struggled with a with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt response. One evening, several months ago, I was November 2-7 too tired to do anything productive, so I turned on the TV and got hooked on an old Some Meditative Poems Western, starring Clint Eastwood. His wife with PaulA. Lacey is killed and he is left with a child. He sets out by himself to find the four suspect killers November 9-14 who are the bandit bad guys. He takes the The Ministry of Writing for Publication law into his own hands, kills off the bad with Tom Mullen guys one by one, is given a hero's welcome when he returns co town, and gets a beautiful woman besides. Walter Wink has PENDLE HILL called this the "myth [false belief] of A QUAKER CENTER FOR S11JDY AND COI'ITEMPLATION I redemptive violence." This is a dominant 338 Plush Mill Rd ·Wallingford, PA 19086 " theme in United States society, including ext.l42 · (800) 742-3150 (US) or(610) 5664507 (worldwide) our foreign policy. [email protected] · www.pendlehill.org Scott Simon presents Afghanistan as a very enticing example. The Taliban was a brutally repressive, murderous regime. The Friends journal Job Opening U.S. comes along, takes the law into its _ own hands, defeats the Talib an with very CIRCULATION AND MARKETING MANAGER (part-time/2 days) few civilian or military deaths, and the world is a better place as a result: Oversee monthly renewal process; create monthly print order; arrange Afghanistan is now a ftee country. Women I promotions, displays, and special mailings. Oversee display ad, direct are no longer suppressed and there is mail, and other marketing campaigns. Preparation of monthly analytical reports. freedom of religion and even politics. Also, Excellent computer, organizational skills, and knowledge of Friends required. we are safer because of the breakup of some Experience with Blackbaud software a plus. of the al-Qaida terror network. It sounds so We offer a warm and congenial work environment, flexible work hours, and the good: redemptive violence at its best. How excitement of work with an award-winning Quaker magazine. do I respond? Scott Simon makes no mention of the Send resume and three references by November 1, 2003, to: ______religious aspect of our Peace Testimony. I Susan Corson-Finnerty, Publisher and Executive Editor, came to believe war was wrong before I Friends journal, m6 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107 FRIENDS joined the Religious Society of Friends. I Fax: (215) 568-1377 • [email protected] could not understand how the No phone calls pkase. JOURNAL fundamentalist Christian church in which I was raised could suppott war and claim to

40 September 2003 FRiENDS JoURNAL believe the teachings and life example of Jesus. Jesus lived in a country occupied by a Ranked among Philadelphia's military that was brutal and repressive. He "Top Hospitals" rejected violence as a solution. He preached and lived an alternative approach. Early in Mental Health Quakers appealed to this power of Christ as the reason for rejecting violence. They referred to the "spirit of Christ by which we • Child and Adolescent 190 are guided" and quoted Isaiah and Micah: Programs "Nation shall not lift up sword against Ways we care nation, neither shall they learn war any • Adult Services more." (Isa 2:4, Mic 4:3) Simon appeals to the practical, not the • Older Adult Program religious. What about the practical? There are questions about Afghanistan he does not • Eating Disorders Program address: refugees, the destroyed • Long~term residential care for chronic mental illness infrastructure, and the torture and murder of hundreds of imprisoned Tali ban soldiers • Women's Program (article in The Guardian, 3/25/03}. Afghanistan is a desperately poor country. • 24~hour evaluation, assessment and referral service Simon makes a brief allusion to this. For example, it has a high infant mortality rate, • 190 year commitment to our Quaker mission and of those children dying, at least in one province, one-third die of malnutrition and one-third from measles. Refugees, poverty, and the destroyed infrastructure were Call215 .. 831 .. 6300 or 800.. 889.. 0548 present before the U.S. war, but all are made www.FriendsHospitalOnline.org worse by that war. It is roo soon to tell how the future in Afghanistan will evolve. It is also too early to know if terrorism has been reduced and the world is safer, as Scott Simon claims. He says, quoting Asia Bennett, that Quakers are good at recognizing injustice Are some Q!taker perspectives on but not evil. This is clever but not true. I would counter that the U.S. is good at identifYing evil in others but not good at the wrong track? identifYing or admitting the evil of our own governmental actions. Our military and C IA have been instrumental either covertly or overtly in establishing and/or supporting the o you want to know what sincere Quakers think, who truly Shah oflran, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, D advocate peace, justice, and helping the poorest of the poor, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Anastasio but who many Quaker perspectives are on the wrong track? Somoza in Nicaragua, the death squads in think G uatemala and El Salvador, and more. We Try reading The Qftaker Economist, a free weekly online news continue to give armaments to countries that have repressive regimes. Scott Simon commentary on peace, justice, and world affairs, somewhat different dismisses past U.S. support of the Taliban. from the usual Quaker line. He quotes Gandhi, saying that circumstances change and we all change our Fifty-seven letters have now been published and appear on the e­ minds. But what about past U.S. support of Osama bin Laden? The U.S. funded and mails of 575 subscribers, mostly Quakers. To see them all online, visit helped recruit and train his forces even in http://tqe.quaker.org. To subscribe (free) , send an e-mail to U.S. cities (See Gabriel Kolko, Another [email protected]. Century oJWar, pp. 48-49). Violence in the U.S. is a serious problem, • •• called an epidemic by the American Medical Ifyou do not have e-mail but would like to receive print copies of The Association. All one has to do is read the paper every night. We have aggrieved QJ.taker Economist, send $15 for the next ten copies (to cover xerox workers killing fellow workers, and students, and mailing costs) to Pat Gilmore, 2474 S. Jackson, Denver, CO killing other students and teachers. The 80210. killers, in their view, have just causes. Redemptive violence is repeated. The causes

FRIENDS JouRNAL September 2003 41 of violence in the U.S. are complex bur certainly, at least subliminally, citizens could That will be your first thought when you think they are justified in following the example set forth by our government: see Broadmead. From the lovely pond violence for a just cause is all right. and springhouse to the expansive trees Scott Simon ends by referring to "Peace and gardens, the beauty of the natural advocates who excuse the crimes of al-Qaida surroundings can only be surpassed by as their response to injustice ...." and that the warmth and vitality of the people "Urging peace at any price will leave who reside here. Located in the rolling terrorists in place and insure more crimes of hills of Hunt Valley, Broadmead is one of terrorism." Both are untrue. Peace advocates the most experienced Continuing Care Retirement I know do neither. The truth is that the U.S. Communities in Maryland. Our residents enjoy has exported violence, war, and arms for garden apartments, all inclusive healthcare, decades, and on September 11 , 2001, the wellness programs, sumptuous meals, interesting terrorism came back to our shores to haunt friends, and close proximity to the many cultural us. It is scary. I am scared. As I write, the attractions of Baltimore. (!;) nation has just again been put on high alert. The solution is not more of the same, as

~ Scott Simon advocates. More violence as in Afghanistan and Iraq will not stop terrorism. Broadmead is an inclusive accredited, not-for-profit Continuing Care We are the strongest military nation in the Retirement Community founded and operated in the caring Quaker tradition. world and have never been less safe. Why can't we seem to grasp the need for a change in direction? Somewhere, sometime, we have (i) Broadmead to stand up and say, 13801 YORK RoAD • COCKEYSVILLE, MD 21030 "No more." 410-527-1900 • www. broadmead.org We need to use the many alternatives TIYNoice- Maryland Relay Service: 1-800-735-2258 already out there and use our enormous resources to find new alternatives to violence as a solution instead of more war. Simon gives little hope for any change in the military- and violence-dominated world. I see a lot of hope in the Quaker peace vision, application of the teachings ofJesus , and the Support use of the many alternatives to violence already known. Rich Van Del/en theJOURNAL! Rochester, Minn. Let's see ourselves as others On a fixed income? You can still make a see us substantial gift to My friend Nils Pearson has shown me the FRIENDS jOURNAL draft of his letter (Fj Forum Aug.) to you, by putting a bequest Scott Simon, and so I am prompted to add my own paragraph or two. My remarks are provision in your w ill. more mundane than Nils's. I am not going to talk about God. For more information, Perhaps you will be inclined to lump me or to let us know that with the Howard Zinn/Noam Chomsky we're already in your school of analysis. Well, I'll save you the trouble by lumping myself in that company. will, please call It seems to me Professors Chomsky and (8oo) 471-6863, Zinn have been trying for decades to tell us or write to us at: that the United Scates is a nation with two distinct faces. One face is the familiar one of FRIENDS jOURNAL the Bill of Rights, of which we are justly proud, and the other is the face retired 1216 Arch Street, 2A General Smedley Butler wrote about when Philadelphia, PA 19107 he described his tenure in the Marine Corps as that of"being a high-class muscle man for development@friendsjou mlll~rir Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the

42 September 2003 FRIENDS J oURNAL Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JouRNAL. bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Display capitalism .. .." (Quoted in American Ad November issue: Reserve space by September 8. Empire: The Political Ethics ofTwentieth­ Deadlines Ads must be received by September 11 . Century Conquest by John M. Swomly, Jr., p. 150). December issue: Reserve space by October 6. Ads must be received by October 9. FRIENDS It is no news to say that the U.S. has meddled, intervened, organized, and bullied Ad rate is $38 per column inch. JOURNAL in a multitude ofcountries around the world-El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Call (215) 563-8629 now with your reservation or questions. Cuba, Viemam, Angola, Congo, Iran, E-mail: [email protected] Indonesia, China, Mghanistan, and Iraq­ to name only a few. The Taliban was repressive. Saddam Hussein was a dictator. And the U.S. had a hand (as in the creation of al-Qaida) in making them what they were. The U.S. has funded, equipped, and trained untold thousands of mercenaries to carry on irs dirty work-irs dreadfully bloody dirty work-on behalf not of the Bill of Rights, bur of corporate power and "strategic interests." (Osama bin Laden is, at least in part, the creation of Zbigniew Brzezinski's effort during the Carter administration to provide the Soviet Union with irs very own Vietnam in Mghanistan.) If the peace community is naive, at times, about nonviolence-a charge I would not dispute-you, Scort Simon, are naive about the moral righmess of U.S. military power, naive about its true function and intent. In the end peace and freedom are spread not by being the world's only superpower with nuclear weapons and a first-strike doctrine, bur by more deeply living the democratic vision of the Peaceable Kingdom. We in this country tend to believe we are the cream of the crop, the light of the world, and we are aghast when people elsewhere seem to hate us for no apparent reason. Perhaps there's nothing more morally pressing than a good, long, painful look at ourselves through the eyes of those Smedley Butler crushed. The question is: are we spiritually strong enough to look through those eyes? O r are we roo fully infatuated with the reflection of our collective white hat?

Paul Gilk Merrill, W is. The Meeting School 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 Recognizing evil Organic Farm ~ rare breeds, active student involvement The article by Scott Simon (F] May) provides much thought and real-life / Caring Quaker Community experiences for Friends to ponder. putting faith into practice in our daily lives His advocacy ofs elective pacifism is Progressive Secondary Education something that some Friends may endorse day/boarding, small classes, hands-on learning but probably most of us cannot. A full response to that aspect of his article could become quite lengthy. The short answer 1 1 ------r 111 ' r-t-~"f.l-~-00/ ---• I ' " . 111 --w11-e-,- · · ---"'1 may be to direct him to faithful statements ,~ f ..;-,.. by Friends, such as the New York Yearly email:[email protected] (603) 899-3366 www.meetingschool.org Meeting's Faith and Practice's statement on

FRIENDS j OURNAL September 2003 43 why Friends repudiate war: ''We repudiate war because it violates the primacy oflove, destroys lives that God has given, and tears at the fabric of society. War is a test of power, not a search for truth or justice. We thus urge the use of peaceful methods, consistent with the ends we seek, which may heal the hates and huns of individuals and nations." We should notice it says "may" heal. There's no guarantee. Only God's love is guaranteed. Scott Simon had a good point when he quoted Asia Bennett to the effect that we Friends are very good at recognizing injustice, but not always good about Start your own subscription recognizing evil. Perhaps Friends should be a little more upfront in labeling evil for what and keep your copies for it is. Part of the problem is deciding where reading, reflection, and referral. to look to identify evil. Evil has frequently appeared in our very midst, by us and our FRIENDS JouRNAL is a major forum for Quaker thought and Quaker friends, as much as by our enemies. life in the 21st Century. It's a helpful reference for conversation Being citizens in a democracy, we in the U.S. have a particular responsibility to and contemplation. identify evil policies and actions in which the United States is directly or indirectly Don't wait. Subscribet oday involved. Here are just a few evil actions and to the journal that tells you policies in which our country was involved Share the ideas. that were not labeled as such either by Keep the copy. what Quakers are thinking National Public Radio, in general, or by and saying. Scon Simon, in particular: • Brutal murders and massacres of their own people by army officers in Latin American countries who had been trained at Subscribe now. the School of the Americas, under the U.S. army at Fott Benning, Georgia. For example, the massacre in December 1981 at El Mozote, Get a full year of FRIENDS JouRNAL delivered to your door for just $35. El Salvador, reported by Mark Danner in That's about $2.92 per copy, a 42% savings off the $5.00 cover price. the New Yorker in horrifying detail. o Yes, send me one year of FRIENDS JouRNAL for $35 (12 issues). • M urders and atrocities committed by (Outside North America, please add $8.) the U.S.-paid and U.S.-directed contras in Nicaragua against civilians, including health 0 I want to save even more; start my two-year subscription now for $65 (24 issues). workers and schoolteachers, during the (Outside North America, please add $16.) 1980s. 0 Payment enclosed 0 Please bill me Charge my: 0 Master Card 0 Visa • Direct CIA involvement in the overthrow of Salvador Allende's Card number Expiration date. ___ _ democratically elected government in Chile in 1973. The resulting military rule of Name:------"'~ General Augusto Pinochet resulted in many, Address:.______9 many documented cases of totture and ~ ~ disappearances, not to mention drastic City: ______State: ___Zip : ___ _ ~ curtailment of civillibetties. For fastest service, log on to or call (800) 471-6863 during • The CIA overthrow of the regular business hours. This special offer expires on December 31 , 2004. democratically elected government ofJacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954, thus ending If I am not satisfied, I can get a lull refund lor all unmailed COllies. ten years of"spring" in which Guatemalans enjoyed for the first time a democratic 1216 Arch Street, 2A government. This was followed by a Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 sequence of brutal military dictators, who by FR I ENDs and large received suppott from the United Fax: (215 ) 568-1377 States. The full of the democratic regime in JouRNAL E-mail: [email protected] Guatemala coincided with the birth and proliferation of death squads in that country, 44 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL Each month we accept the challenge to bring our readers the best in Quaker thought and life today. FRIENDS ~~~ Return this postage-paid card now and learn what JOURNAL i!r Quakers aresayinganddoing in the 21st century. 0 Yes, send me one year of FRIENDs joURNAL for $35. 0 I want to save more. Enter a two-year subscription for $65. IfI am not satisfied, I can get a full refund for all unmailed copies. 0 Please bill me

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J••• IJJ.J ••••• JJII ... J... IJ.J .... JJ.J ... IJJ ..... IJ.J as well as in El Salvador. Personalized Care in the Scon Simon feels that in the face of the kind of evil represented by the Taliban , the Quaker Tradition United States had an absolute right and duty to make war on Afghanistan if for no other Since 1896 reason than our own survival. What would he propose in the face of the evil acts and A Quiet, policies formulated in CIA offices or in U.S. corporate boardrooms that lead directly to Home-Like Setting in a terrifying human rights abuses in other countries? War? Or, because the evil has Beautifully Landscaped originated in our own country, are we simply to remain silent? Yes, we Quakers do Atmosphere need to call actions evil when they are evil, whether the perpetrators belong to foreign governments or our own. • Private Rooms, Suites and • Recreational Activities Andrew C Mills Apartments Lower Gwynedd, Pa. • 24 Hour Security • Assistance Activities of Daily with • Som e Financial We need international Living Assistance Available policing, not war • Emergency Response System For information please My response to Scon Simon (F]May) is • Three Nutritious, Home-Cooked to propose that the world must not accept Meals Served Daily in Elegant call856-235-4884 the violence of wars, but seek only Surroundings 28 Main Street, nonviolent solutions. How can the world form an international body that would • Linen and Housekeeping Services Moorestown, NJ 08057 exercise police functioning among nations that would stop evildoers? Must we continue to have military forces to "take out" evil and then bring the evildoers to justice? Scotr Simon seems to dismiss the development of an international system of justice and policing as ineffective. Many of us would prefer such an It's About Them. international system, just as we accept police and the limitation of police power in our society. Why do we as a nation approve Join our close-knit community of 160 students. sending a military force with its terrorizing firepower and the subsequent acceptance of • Grades 6-12 "collateral damage?" It has been a dangerous • Boarding Options Available habit of U.S. society (and many others) to • 8-to-1 Student/Faculty Ratio rush into short-term solutions. We lack the • Just 75 Miles North of NYC patience, the planning, and the persistence to develop long-range planning for cooperation for the future good. We know that a civilized society will not-does not­ permit its police to use helicopter gunships using rockets against civilian cars and to enter neighborhoods with tanks to crush and enter civilian homes. How should, or can, we allow other nation-states to exercise such Oalzwood violence? I'm sure that many remember the FRIENDS . SCHOOL outrage after Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop a bomb on the MOVE house a decade ago. Poughkeepsie, New York I will continue to support actions that encourage local, national, and international 1-800-843-3341 groups to formulate a consensus that will make possible such nonviolent solutions to www.oakwoodfriends.org conflict. There will be many different views as to the format of the solution, such as the

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46 September 2003 FruENDS JouRNAL love tor ones enemies 1s Irrelevant m the real world. In my view, Scott Simon needs to Friends Academy understand that this magazine is written by, and for, Quakers, and that as Quakers we Founded 1876 Located on scenic Long Island, are called upon to recognize God's Truth, less than 30 miles from New York City. which transcends mortal existence. For us, the physical world and the spiritual world are both real, and so the spiritual argument Celebrating our 125th Anniversary requires a response. Scott Simon says that violence is necessary if we are to survive. In my view, physical survival without spiritual survival is meaningless. As Jesus says in Matthew 16:26, "And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world bur lose your own soul in the process?" Concerning the war in Afghanistan, Scott Simon seems to gloss over the fact that the U.S. and other Western governments willingly traded with the Taliban while it was engaged in the atrocities of which he speaks. He doesn't see that U.S. policy may Founded in 1876 by Gideon Frost for "the children of Friends and those have helped the T aliban to retain power, nor similarly sentimented, " Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, inde­ does he see that if the U.S. and other pendent, college preparatory day school serving 750 students from age three industrial nations had refused to deal with through the twelfth grade. The school awards significant financial assistance. the Taliban (or better yet, if they had held out incentives predicated upon human rights improvements), its reign of terror Friends Academy • Duck Pond Road • Locust Valley, NY 11560 might have ended without bloodshed. Phone: 516-676-0393 • Fax: 516-671-2025 • [email protected] Historically, U.S. foreign policy in Third­ World nations seems to display a frightening pattern. We o&en reward injustice, and our response when things go bad is always the same-bomb the heck out of them, and ~~DSlfo don't worry about why our policies failed. Scott Simon acknowledges this, but he fails J\ Century of Quaker Care to reach any conclusion, stating without any ~~~ logical argument that a consistent foreign ~ ~~ policy compounds the problem. On the .. Featuring: Skilled Nursing Care contrary, if the U.S. had a more consistent ~Oons'{o foreign policy in regard to the T aliban it • Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy • might never have been necessary to intervene militarily. Rewarding oppression • Activities and Special Events • Patient, supportive staff • for years and then suddenly acting as if we Medicaid/Medicare Certified are appalled only sends a message that the U.S. is amoral. This is no way to conduct a rational foreign policy. Friends Home will soon become a Scott Simon says he knows the bromides of pacifism. He says this while glossing over Continuing Care Retirement Community the fact that a failed foreign policy strategy followed by a violent bombing campaign Coming soon: Assisted Living with Alzheimers Floor only serves to multiply the violence. He also conveniently ignores the fact that the use of ~Sffo violence sows the seeds for recurring Introducing: Apartments and cottages for vengeance-a cycle of violence. His article the ;IJ} presupposes that there are evil regimes, and independent retirement living that we need to bomb the heck out of them Vill4boo&e in order to safeguard democracy. When s-D.I.Ut:f G<.,i1P:Ilu innocent people die, that's too bad, but at least it's for a good cause. No need to look For more information on our current or future services call: for any context, no need to look for Friends Home at Woodstown: 856-769-1500 • The Village: 856-769-5035 preventive solutions-Scott Simon's world is black-and-white, and the solution to PO Box 457 1 Friends Drive Woodstown NJ 08098 difficult problems is to kill people in order

FRIENDS j OURNAL September 2003 47 Friends School ro save them. This seems robe a 21st­ dramatically; and third, the U.S. has yet to centwy variation of the Albigensian commit much to cleaning up our mess and crusader's maxim: "Kill them all, God will rebuilding Afghanistan. "the small school that know his own." At the end of the article, he Later in his article, Scott Simon makes big people" uses the oft-repeated straw man argument, disparages peace activism by focusing on saying that peace advocates "excuse the Charles Lindbergh and George Bernard crimes of ai-Qaida." Scott Simon certainly Shaw. I question why he chose to cite these knows the bromides of militarism. two men who are not usually thought of a Ian Cooper being prominent, historic peace activists. Wakefield, Mass. Charles Lindbergh especially was better known as a Nazi apologist. Instead, why didn't Scott Simon cite a Quaker or other Pacifism vs. passivism prominent religious peace activist? Scott Simon was able to oppose military This letter is in response to Scott Simon's responses until September 11 , 2001, since Greene Street Friends School article (Fj May). He starts out by admitting the previous conflicts in Central America 5511 Greene Street that his position statement on the U.S. and elsewhere did not directly affect our Philadelphia, PA 19144 invasion of Afghanistan was also published country. No more; now he suppons the • in SoLdier ofFortune. While I am thankful expedient military response. The Pre-K through Grade 8 that he gave payment from that International Criminal Coun was formed to Founded in 1855 his magazine to the AFSC, I am curious as ro deal with organized crime networks like ai­ why he allowed his text to be published in Qaida, but then, the Bush administration Please call TODAY for a that forum. Was it to present himself as a doesn't support the ICC. tour. 215-438-7545 "pragmatic" or "realistic" Quaker ro the No true pacifist wants peace at any price, militaristic readers of that journal? but instead, love at all costs. We want peace He then claims to respect every Friend's with justice, which does not come easy or personal conviction, while later belittling cheap. And while terrorist strikes make "no A Ministry of Prayer and Learning devoted to those who recite the Peace Testimony as distinctions between Quakers and Pentagon "inflexible political ideologues" who have generals," our bombs and cruise missiles the School ofthe not "reassessed their own thinking since joni make no distinctions between combatants Mitchell's first Greatest Hits album." I also and children, soldiers and wedding patties, distinctly remember hearing him on his generals and reporters, and so on. radio show mock the peace activists who I fully recognize the evil that exists were coming to Washington, D.C., in the around the world. Evil allows unchecked spring of2002 for a rally on the Mall. He militarism to redirect money that could be made fun of what would be the appropriate spent to end starvation and poverty, to clothes to wear and songs to sing for the provide decent housing and education, to rally. Scott Simon declares that he has end the fear of recruitment of children into changed his thinking about war and peace as the military, and to prevent the landscape a "result of working around the world as a from being littered with mines or poisoned journalist for more than two decades, often by chemical nuclear debris. in wnes of conflict." He no longer echoes the "bromides of pacifism." Well, during the Daniel G. 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Seeking quiet? Healing? Deeper prayer? Study time? Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small Individual retreat facilities. $30/day room, board, and guid­ academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com­ ance if desired. Beautiful mountain views, hiking trails. Faith munity service, consensus decision making, daily work based and intertaith. East Mountain Retreat Center, Lois projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur Rose-Director (UCC minister and lgnatian spiritual direc­ Morgan School, 60 AMS Circle, Burnsville, NC 28714. tor). 8 Lake Buel Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230-1450. (828) 675-4262. 501 East Main Street P/F-{413) 528-6617. Website: . H • FREEMAN Centerville, IN 47330 Lansdowne Friends School-a small Friends school for , 765-939-6910 Chincoteague Island, Va. Off-Season (before 6/15 or after boys and girls three years of age through sixth grade, rooted ASSOCIATES, LLC [email protected] 9/3): Two adjacent, fully equipped vacation homes; sleep 8 in Quaker values. We provide children with a quality academic or 10. Walk to town, bike to Assateague Island National and a davelopmentally appropriate program in a nurturing Consulting services for educational institutions and Seashore, birdwatch anywhere. Polite pets permitted. Weekly environment. Whole language, thematic education, conflict nonprofit organizations. Fundraising. Capital campaigns. rates $420, $490 respectively; weekend costs hall. (703) resolution, Spanish, after-school care, summer program. Planned giving. Recent clients include liberal arts col­ 448-8678 or . 110 N. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050. (610) leges, seminaries, independent schools, social service 623-2548. agencies, Pendle Hill, FGC, and many other Friends Cape May, N.J. Beach Hous&-weekly rentals; weekend The Quaker School at Horsham, a value-<:entered el­ organizations. rentals in off-season. Sleeps 12+. Great for family re­ ementary and middle school for students with learning dif­ unions! Block from beach. Close to mall. Ocean views ferences. Small, remedial classes, qualified staff, serving Celo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of book from wraparound porch. Call: (718) 398-3561. Philadelphia, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. 318 Meet­ production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typing, editing, layout, final Ing House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674-2875. delivery. Free brochure. 160 Ohle Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. Pocono Manor. Beautiful, rustle mountain house suitable for gatherings, retreats, and reunions. Seven bedrooms. United Friends School: coed; preschool-S; emphasizing Three full baths. Beds for 15. Fully equipped. Deck with integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, includ­ Summer Camps mountain view. Hiking trails from back door. Weekends or ing whole language and manipulative math; serving upper by the week, April through October. Contact Jonathan Snipes: Bucks County. 20 South 10th Street, Quakertown, PA 18951. Journey's End Farm Camp (215) 880-1231. (215) 538-1733. is a farm devoted to children for sessions of two or three Frankford Friends School: coed, Pre-K to grade 8; serving weeks each summer. Farm animals, gardening, nature, center city, Northeast, and most areas of Philadelphia. We ceramics, shop. Retirement Uving provide children with an affordable yet challenging aca­ Nonviolence, simplicity, reverence for nature are empha­ demic program in a small, nurturing environment. Frankford sized in our program centered in the life of a Quaker farm Friends Homes, Inc., founded by North Caro­ Friends School, 1500 Orthodox Street, Philadelphia, PA family. For 32 boys and gir1s, 7-12 years. Welcome all lina Yearly Meeting of the Society of 19124. (215) 533-5368. races. 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Enjoy the beauty of four sea­ house, village near Avignon, 3 BR (sleeps 5-6), kitchen/ sons, as well as outstanding cultural, intellectual, and Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic pro­ dining room, spacious living room, modem bathroom. spiritual opportunities in an area where Quaker roots run gram in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for children Terrace, courlyard, view of medieval castle. Separate deep. For information please call: (336) 292-9952, or ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes and an second house sleeps 4. Both available year-round $1,200- write: Friends Homes West, 6100 W. Friendly Avenue, enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole child. An 2,900/mo. . Marc Simon, Greensboro, NC 27410. Friends Homes, Inc. owns and at-risk program for five-year-olds is available. The school rue Oume, 30290 Saint Victor, France, ; or J. Simon, 124 Bondcroft, Buffalo, NY Equal Housing Opportunity. school. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 Llandillo 14226, (716) 836·8698. Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (610) 446-3144.

50 September 2003 FRIENDS JouRNAL FRIENDS CO MITTEE ON NATIONAL ~GISLATION

For 60 years FCNL has brought the concerns, experiences and testimonies of the Religious Society Quaker Faith of Friends to the U.S. Congress and the President. In times of national crisis and challenge-nuclear arms at Work race, the struggle for civil rights, wars and threats of • war-FCNL has worked in partnership with Friends the World across the country, practicing our Quaker faith.

Today, FCNL faces a challenge of its own: the FCNL Education Fund building on Capitol Hill must be partially demolished and reconstructed for safe occupancy. The cost is substantial: $6.17 million (including costs of moving and rental of temporary offices). Friends and Friends meetings and churches have already contributed over 78% of this sum.

Tomorrow, and for tomorrows to come, the reconstructed building wiU be fully accessible, increase useable space by 25%, incorporate the best of "green architecture," and ensure a Quaker presence on Capitol Hill for future generations.

Because the FCML iliuaition lfund, a nou.:profit

501(c)(3) organftation, owns the building7 your gifts to the Capital Campaign are tax-deductible to the .. FCNL is a gift handed to us by previous extent allowed by law. Checks should be made generations as a way of witnessing to our payable to the FCNL Education Fund-Capital faith and beliefs for peace and justice. It is Campaign. our stewardship responsibility to carry that forward, to hand it on to the next For more information or to contribute securely generation, to keep the work going., on-line, go to www.fcnl.org and click on the "Building Reconstruction" icon; or contact Tim Binford Farlow, Barner (800-630-1330 ext. 147 or [email protected]). Clerk of theFCNL Education F apital Campaign.

fRIENDS COMMITTEE ON RFC UNL NATIONAL L EGISLATION 245 Second Street NE • Washington, DC 20002-5795 + 8!)0-630-1330 + www.fcul.org + [email protected]

FRIENDS j OURNAL September 2003 51 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099 800-742-3150,610-566-4507 (worldwide) www.pendlehill.org

The Pendle Hill Peace Forum 2003-04 Walkftzg Cihe Way OJ Peace.· Peacebuilding InA l-1olent World ~in peacebuilders from the neighborhood and around the world to explore how to sow the seeds of J ~on-violent direct action. From the intra-personal to the global context, we will examine the sources of violence and learn together how we can walk the way of peace and engage creatively with others to resolve conflicts. In three sections ofThursday evening lectures, panels and interactive events and in weekend workshops, we will discover how we can help build the Beloved Community of Martin Luther King's vision in a world crying out for justice and healing.

SEEDS OF CONFLICT, STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, CONFLICT PREVENTION October 23 and 30, November 6, 13 and 20 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, RESOLUTION, & TRANSFORMATION January 22 and 29, February 5, I2, 19, 26 and March 4 FORGIVENESS, RECONCILIATION, & RESTORATIVE JUSTICE April I , 8, IS, 22 and Conference April22-24

For more information, call John Meyer, 800-742-3150, ext. 121, or e-mail [email protected].

ome of the nation's leading thinkers on racism and racial justice Sspoke in our 2002-03 Forum, Racial Justice: Speak Truth to Power, and our conference Racial Justice As Economic Justice.

Tif fe want to share their insights with you. Audio and r r videotapes of their speeches will stimulate discussion in your school, meeting, or organization and help you move forward with our witness on racial justice.

• Cornel West • Manning Marable • Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz • Jerry Leaphart • George "Tink" Tinker • James Lawson • Thandeka • Irene Monroe • Emma Lapsansky • Frank Wu • Vanessa Julye • Donna McDaniel • Nancy Richardson • Ed Nakawatase • Daisy Machado • Elizabeth Ellis • Bernice Warren

Call the Pendle Hill Bookstore, 800-742-3150, ext. 2, or e-mail [email protected].