{"id":15586,"date":"2014-09-06T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2014-09-06T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:18:10","slug":"15586","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=15586","title":{"rendered":"PPPP \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s VERY practical Plan for achieving Peace on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
By<\/p>\n
Edwina Charles, BA, BSc (Hons)<\/em><\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Peace on Earth? An impossible dream, many would argue. Jesus Christ desired it passionately, and evil-doers made him pay for it by his Passion… for two thousand five hundred years of recorded history (adding the Christians onto the classical Greeks) mankind is still deprived of global peace. Worse, post-modern politicians preach it but warmonger continuously in the corridors of power like primitive barbarians. The lies and hypocrisies touted about in international forums (United Nations, European Union, and NATO etc.) are comical, were they not intensely dangerously bellicose \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c those who love playing with fire on the brink, may unwittingly suddenly fall into the abyss, and plunge the world with them, as it happened in the First World War! Assuming that the Israeli-Arab conflict is one of the worst of casus belli<\/em> in the history of mankind, and reason for many seemingly unrelated wars in our own times, a successful peaceful resolution of it may serve as a paradigm shift<\/strong> for achieving the same in other national conflicts. At least that seems to me to be the logic of Mr. Richard Skellington, poet, and the very distinguished Editor-in-chief of the Open University<\/em> website Forum. A Sociologist, course-book writer, and a founding father of Britain\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s largest University with over 260,000 students nowadays, Mr. Skellington has done great honours to Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian by picking on his PPPP \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Peace Plan<\/strong> \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c as the most practical and doable action to achieve a just<\/strong> peace \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c an agreeable peace with acceptable Justice \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c in the Middle East. There simply is not another one comparable on the international table; http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/people-politics-law\/politics-policy-people\/society-matters\/thinking-outside-the-box-resolving-the-palestinian-problem<\/a> \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093One wonders what the war-crimes perpetrator, ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been paid for (they say) a million English pounds per annum<\/em>, for a decade now loitering and soliciting in the oil-rich Middle Eastern Sultanates, and Emirates, and pseudo-Kingdoms … invented by the British imperialists<\/strong>\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/span>, wonders Professor Pilikian (personal communication). At least the Professor had offered his plan on a Google-Blog for nothing, back in … 2007 \u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0http:\/\/israel-arab-conflict-solved.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a> And if adopted then, many thousands of lives would have been saved, let alone the latest war-crimes in Gaza. An intellectual opponent of Professor Pilikian is his dear friend Maestro Alberto Portugheis, a renowned Concert-Pianist, Musicologist, author, and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize a few years ago. Maestro Portugheis has his own maverick passion, battling for the elimination of the Arms-industry, and he won\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7t accept that the Professor is totally on his side… The Maestro thinks they disagree, as he considers all efforts for peace completely wasted as long as the Arms-industry flourishes globally and subverts every<\/strong> attempt for peace, considering everybody to be naive who thinks otherwise. Professor Pilikian agrees that he may be a tad naive, but he points out that without it producing some Hope and \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093naive optimism\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d, Life has been made unbearable by ultra-capitalist inhumanity, skinning people alive daily<\/strong> everywhere in the world<\/strong>. The increase in global poverty on an industrial scale (people living off garbage dumps in India, Africa, and Brazil, Junk-Food-banks in Britain) is horrendous and pure satanic evil, while the few of the bank-robbers live in heavenly splendour, deluded that they have escaped god\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s justice. \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093About 2,500 years ago (and half a millennium before Jesus Christ), history\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s first great Greek Tragedian Aeschylus wrote a Trilogy (Oresteia)<\/em>, to work out the Democratic principle for conflict resolution. He could have been as naive, by defining it as the abrupt break in the reciprocity of Revenge-acts. <\/strong>Not his words, but I adopt proudly his unambiguous implication expressed through his plotline \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c the great war-monger and destroyer of Troy, Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra, who is then killed by their son Orestes… by the ancient primitive barbaric laws and rituals of Revenge, they were all doing their \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093moral\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d duties by acting on the principle of an-eye-for-an eye, and a tooth-for- a-tooth Revenge cycle ad infinitum et absurdum<\/em>. One man, Aeschylus, a great poet could see that the murderous revenge reciprocity MUST<\/strong> stop, before mankind itself ends! The Furies<\/em>, a gaggle of female spirit-monsters with frightening looks<\/em>, had the duty to harass and persecute mother-killers to their own death.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 Aeschylus invites them to the Pnyx<\/em>, a promontory in Athens near the Parthenon<\/em>, where the world\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s first democratic parliament was constituted. The god Apollo with his \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009clawyers\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 also gets there, and in a gloriously logical argument succeeds through give-and-take (the principle of democratic Negotiation) <\/strong>persuading the Furies to give up their Revenge obligations, transformthemselves into good-spirits with beautiful looks<\/em>, become the guardians of the democratic city-state of Athens, which begins to flourish economically in peace-time, and as a direct result of it! <\/strong> I cannot say who is more naive, Aeschylus, me or my friend Maestro Portugheis \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c but one thing is certain; the democratic principle of breaking down the vicious Reciprocal Revenge-cycle via negotiations (defined as give-and-take) CAN<\/strong> bring about a just peace<\/strong>. Revenge, unfortunately, is a most despicable Semitic<\/em> feature, prominent in the Old Testament<\/em>, where even God is infected by it… thank god comes the New Testament<\/em> Jesus Christ preaching unconditional total Love<\/strong> even of mortal enemies<\/strong>, but alas, only to be ignored and unjustly murdered. Semites (Jews and Arabs alike, step children of Abraham), still behave by the dictates of Reciprocal Revenge endlessly ridiculously murdering each other, and OBSCENELY ALL IN THE NAME OF God!!<\/strong> You don\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7t know whether to laugh or cry. Jacob (named \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Israel\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d by God himself) could not prevent his obnoxious children selling their sweetest youngest brother Joseph into … Slavery. Two thousand years later, the Israelis (= all … Jacob-s) treat their brethren Palestinian Arabs as their slaves\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d,<\/span> concludes Professor Pilikian. Two points of the PPPP render it totally practical; The Professor\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Aeschylean definition of the breaking down of the vicious Reciprocal Revenge Cycle<\/strong> (worthy of an acronym \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c RRC<\/strong>) through give-and-take negotiations. It is incredibly foolish of Israeli negotiators wanting to take-take-take, and all, giving nothing or little in return, which has been the feature of Middle Eastern pseudo-negotiations without exception hitherto. All charges of naivety suddenly fly out of the window altogether with the Professor\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s simple, scholarly, factual<\/strong>, straightforward, and extraordinary discovery of the possible elimination of the name<\/strong> Israel as a political entity. No need for Hamas rockets and mad underground tunnels, hate-filled suicide bomber jackets murdering thousands. One can do it with the flick of a ball-point pen \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c and here is where Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s genius lies. At a time (in the Seventies<\/em>) when no one in Britain was called a genius (except Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci), Professor Pilikian as a legendary young theatre-director was so baptized by Hugh Cruttwell, no less than the Principal of the world-famous RADA \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts <\/em>; http:\/\/professorpilikiancv.blogspot.co.uk\/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=2<\/a> Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s scholarly factual observation is impeccable;<\/p>\n \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093My father\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s name was Israel, and is my proud second name; strangely very rare among the Jews of Israel proper\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d,<\/span> confirms Professor Pilikian, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093I never met anyone in Israel, named Israel <\/em><\/strong>like myself! Let everyone in Israel name themselves \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Israel\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d if they wish, like my father, but why abuse it as the name of a country or people, when historically it was no more than the alternative name <\/strong>of a father (Jacob) backstabbed by his own children!\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/span> Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093discovery\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d of this uncontroversial historical fact<\/strong> is comparable to the discovery of the atom in the 20th<\/sup> c. The \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093atom\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d has existed since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, but it was only at the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> c. that Rutherford and Bohr \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093discovered\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d the Atom. The fact that the name of Israel was a person\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s name (the Patriarch Jacob\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s) was known for two thousand years, but as a name not-used in international law<\/strong> can serve as a momentous basis for a bout of practical, democratic, civilized negotiations<\/strong> by breaking down the despicable RRC<\/strong> (Reciprocal Revenge vicious-Circle), to finally achieve a just peace, that can serve as a model for achieving peace all around the globe.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 And that would be truly the greatest achievement of mankind \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c heavenly peace \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c after two thousand years of hell on earth. Another first is that it will be a peace constructed by … creative artists<\/strong> \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c poets, musicians, theatre directors … not the inhuman politicians and military straw men. A simple summary of Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Peace Plan possesses the beauty of a perfect mathematical formula much strived after in pure Mathematics. And it is impossible not to join with yet another poet, Mrs. Phaedra Behrent\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s most beautiful statement expressed most beautifully, and published as a Comment on the OU website, wishing the PPPP a Nobel Peace prize status and legitimacy. Here is the simple summary of the PPPP from the 2007 website; http:\/\/israel-arab-conflict-solved.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n * Rename [and declare] present-day Israel as\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0New Palestine * Rename [and declare] The State of Israel as<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Hebrew State * Rename [and declare] the West Bank as<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Arab State * Declare New Palestine to be a\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Federative Union<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Between The Hebrew State and The Arab State * With\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Jerusalem\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0as the universal\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Capital city * With\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Tel-Aviv\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0as the\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Capital City\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0of the Hebrew State *\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Ramallah\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0as the\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Capital City of the Arab State<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Edwina Charles, BA, BSc (Hons) * Peace on Earth? 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