THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE PROJECT

A common history, an extraordinary future

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The Narrative

 

 

I. Overview

 

The Israel Palestine Project (TIPP) is a non-profit organization, incorporated in the State of California.  TIPP provides for a multi-phase, strategic intervention through initiatives that target the source of this 120 year old conflict. TIPP defines the “source” as the historically developed, parallel and mutually contradictory stories that live in the literature and are held in the consciousness of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.  Sociologists refer to such stories as national historical narratives.  We call them the contradictory narratives.

 

The intransigent trans-generational conflict between Israel and Palestine exerts a deadly impact on the Middle East, with associated adverse effects rippling across the globe. The many attempts to resolve this schism have proved ineffective and, in the end, inconsequential.  The world community response is moving increasingly toward deep resignation.  Something entirely new is urgently called for; the time for healing this elemental conflict is long overdue. As described below, TIPP uses a 4-point cycle for its transformational work:

 

  • Identifies what is missing now
  • Creates bold initiatives to provide what is missing
  • Implements the initiatives
  • Causes breakthroughs

 

With completion of each of the initiatives, TIPP celebrates the breakthrough and then continues to rigorously look at what is missing now.  This ensures that the progress and momentum is continually maintained, while honoring the successes at hand. 

 

Currently, a new historical narrative has been created which is designed to honor and be acceptable to both peoples. The 25 chapters, have been edited and reviewed and accepted with minor changes by Israeli and Palestinian historians This narrative was generated through weekly conferences over a period of one year and what unfolded during the sometimes –stormy sessions was an extraordinary braiding of the two opposite and contradictory narratives into one.    The historians gave their approval for acceptance of this narrative by their respective mainstream populations. 

This new narrative, when accepted by the mainstream populations of Israel and Palestine, will transform the source of the conflict.

 

 

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