Read this great quote today, it seems to me that if ever the world needed shalom it was now, but sadly for many millions it must seem like a fantasy.
The word for peace in both Arabic (salam) and Hebrew (shalom) has the same etymological root and the same breadth of meaning: wholeness, health, safety, and security. It refers to a peace experienced and lived out in the everyday historical situation of life. Peace can be a basis or cause that leads to something else. It is either a prerequisite or a by-product.
- Naim Ateek
from "Justice, and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation"
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