{"id":262448,"date":"2024-05-20T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=262448"},"modified":"2024-05-15T07:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T06:57:43","slug":"dear-brother-dear-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/dear-brother-dear-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Brother, Dear Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter whether you speak Hebrew or Arabic<br \/>\nit is of no consequence to me<br \/>\nI only see<br \/>\na human being<\/p>\n<p>It is too late to create a Jewish state<br \/>\nas it is also too late<br \/>\nto create an Islamic state<br \/>\nregardless of holocaust or nakba &#8211;<br \/>\nA Christian state?<br \/>\nGod forbid<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time<em><br \/>\n<\/em>to raise awareness<em><br \/>\n<\/em>above the kippah and the kufi<em><br \/>\n<\/em>above the head scarf and hijab<em><br \/>\n<\/em>above the tie-<em><br \/>\n<\/em>or better into the heart<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too late to believe<br \/>\nthat you are chosen by God<br \/>\nwe must choose<br \/>\neach other<\/p>\n<p>Dear sister, dear brother<br \/>\nwhite, black, Hindu, Buddhist, Romani, Jew<br \/>\nIt concerns me not<\/p>\n<p>those who want to create a society<br \/>\nbased on this: being human<br \/>\nare the leaders of our time<\/p>\n<p>Young men and women<br \/>\nin Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, Norway, USA<br \/>\nrise against the madness<br \/>\nstand up for Man<\/p>\n<p>these old men with ties or turbans<br \/>\nwho believe they have the right to rule &#8211;<br \/>\nshow that they are irrelevant<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let yourselves be seduced by the myths of the past<br \/>\nbut create a new one<br \/>\nwhich can bring peace<\/p>\n<p>If God exists<br \/>\nthen he has handed over the reins<br \/>\nto us<\/p>\n<p>this is the only hypothesis that can work<br \/>\nwhether Jew, Christian or Muslim:<\/p>\n<p>man is sacred<br \/>\nand so the earth<\/p>\n<p><em>_________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Christian Egge is a Norwegian author and teacher.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The original version was first published\u00a0 by the Norwegian weekly<\/em> Dag og Tid <em>on 23 Feb 2024.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Translation from Norwegian by Nils Langeland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter whether you speak Hebrew or Arabic<br \/>\nit is of no consequence to me<br \/>\nI only see<br \/>\na human being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[307,858,868],"class_list":["post-262448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-humanity","tag-humans","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262471,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262448\/revisions\/262471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}