Would you beat your swords into plowshares already?

The never-ending violence in Israel is crazy-making sometimes. The murder of Jewish students last week. Yesterday, an Israeli raid that threatens to halt truce talks. Sometimes it makes me too angry to write, to angry to pick up my camera and take a picture of my knitting.

Show some true courage, you Israeli and Palestinian politicians, and get out there and make some peace.

Knit for peace on March 21.

One voice

With thanks to my virtual buddy Tikkunknitter for calling my attention to this, may I call your attention to the One Million Voices project promoting peace in the Middle East? Here’s the One Voice Mandate:

• Recognize the right of both peoples to independence, sovereignty, freedom, justice, dignity, respect, national security, personal safety, and economic viability;
• Implement concrete confidence-building measures that will improve the lives of the Palestinian and Israeli people, including ensuring freedom of movement for ordinary civilians and fostering education against incitement on both sides.
• Immediately commence uninterrupted negotiations until reaching an agreement, within the timeframe of one year, for a Two-State Solution, fulfilling the consistent will of the overwhelming majority of both populations.

Peace is the exercise of common sense.

Today’s knitted garment – Interweave Knit’s Sienna Cardigan in Madil Loden (in case you’ve noticed a lot of Madil Loden in my life, let me just say that my LYS had a clearance sale last year. I stocked up.) I just love the lacy cable.

On peace in Israel/Palestine

Interesting op-ed piece in today’s NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11gavron.html). From his perspective as a Zionist, Daniel Gavron observes that the Zionist goals of the 19th century and following the establishment of the state of Israel have been met, that peace talks are underway between Israel and Fatah, and yet Israel is repudiating its success. He says that to build an additional fence along the border with Egypt is to cower behind a wall and adopt a loser mentality–the only way to resolve the violence is through a political solution. He says it much more eloquently than I do, so click above for the full article.

I got my Ravelry invite today! When I have a bit of free time, I’ll poke around and see what’s there . I think that I’ll use their project organization functions–boy, do I have UFO’s. I bet that if I was to take out all my UFO’s and knit them up, I’d be busy for a year. The problem is that my projects become UFOs because they aren’t interesting anymore, so why continue? But then again, how can I rip something out when it’s so full of useful information, like gauge and quality of finished fabric and stuff like that. Maybe next time I have a few days on my hands I’ll do a merciless purge of UFOs. And then I’ll clean my closet, and clean out my desk drawers, and chuck out all the unused files on my computer, and and and. Nah, I’d rather knit.