Benjamin Netanyahu's government has tragically failed twice through misperceptions:

He allowed Qatar to support Gaza with hundreds of millions of dollars annually, some of which was ultimately diverted to weapons and tunnel construction. Netanyahu wanted to split Hamas from the PA (‘divide et impera’) but reached the opposite. In 2019 he told his party’s parliamentary caucus: “Whoever opposes a Palestinian state must support delivery of funds to Gaza because maintaining separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza will prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

The idea of pacifying and stabilizing Gaza was ahistorical, because it makes extremists even hungrier, like Adolf Hitler and failed appeasement by the UK and France in the 1930ies has proven. He fed the monster.

By October 7, 2023, most of the armed forces had withdrawn to the West Bank and the people on the Gaza border were left without protection.

Even several warnings from female surveillance soldiers at the border to Gaza (known as tatzpitaniyot in Hebrew, using balloons and cameras) and reports by the Egyptian intelligence service were not taken seriously. He was blind.

All this was very naïve and amounted to ‘Provocative Weakness’ fueling the Hamas terrorists`zeal.

The lack of sympathy after the brutal mass murders of October 7, 2023, indirectly blaming Israel for the mass killings of Hamas, especially in the Muslim world, the vote of 120 countries in the UN on October 26, 2023, against a military response of the IDF in Gaza and the abstention of 45 states proved with all brutality:

Israel stands alone with the U.S. when it really matters.

The UN, exhibiting a pro-Palestinian bias, is always against Israel.

It is perceived by a two third majority of former colonial countries in the world as a ‘left-over colony of white men suppressing the local population’. They regard the terrorists as positive ‘liberation forces’. Many of them struggled for independence against colonial powers in the 1960ies.

The UN agency in charge since 1948 is the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA). It is staffed mainly by local Palestinians. Interwoven and influenced by hate propaganda and terror supporters. It is not the solution, but part of the problem.

The Telegram channel of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza was filled with posts promoting Hamas terror, praising the killers of October 7, 2023, as “heroes” or “martyrs” calling for the execution of the hostages.  UNRWA teacher Abdallah Mehjez urged the civilians to “serve as human shields” and refused evacuations. In January 2024, reports indicated that some UNRWA employees were involved in the massacre itself and ten percent of them in Gaza were estimated to be Hamas members. As a result, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Germany and other countries temporarily suspended their payments. The employees were dismissed by the Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini and an investigation was ordered.

In February 2024 the IDF discovered a tunnel shaft near an UNRWA school, leading to an underground terrorist tunnel beneath UNRWA's main headquarters in Gaza and reported: “The forces found electrical infrastructure inside the tunnel connected to UNRWA's main HQ, suggesting it was supplying the tunnel with electricity—generated by the fuel provided through humanitarian aid. This 700-meter-long tunnel, 18 meters deep, contained multiple blast doors and various intelligence assets seized by the forces. Intelligence and documents found confirmed the offices' use by Hamas terrorists. Large quantities of weapons, including rifles, ammunition, grenades and explosives, were uncovered hidden in the building's offices.”

After all those scandals UNRWA director Philippe Lazzarini declined to step down.

The UN has failed for three generations, keeping the conflict simmering and not pacifying it. This was and still is precisely the strategic goal of the majority of Israel haters. A wrong UN policy on the back of the poor population, whose suffering was perpetuated. A perversion of the UN Charter. A comparison with Germany clearly shows the discrepancy: no fewer than 12 million displaced refugees (17x more) from the East were successfully integrated into the West in just a few years after 1945.

For more than seven decades the UN has been unable to set up a functioning local self-government in the cities and villages. Enough money was available, billions of dollars. But too much corruption. Too little money for future investments. Indirect funding of tunnels, weapons, terrorists and hate propaganda at schools. Well documented but ignored by the funding states and the UN. It is a dysfunctional mess under the golden legacy of United Nations.

There were three nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe”:

When 700,000 Palestinians were exiled and when they were not sufficiently integrated by their Arab neighbors to help them build a new happy life for three generations. And when 605,000 Jews were exiled from their homes in Arab countries.

After all this endless drama, now the main question should no longer be: pro-Israel or pro-Palestine? Rather, the crucial question is: what makes both Israelis and Palestinians happy? Which life do they want to live? An endless struggle? Totalitarian rule by extremists or freedom and prosperity in a functioning democracy, as the 12 million expelled refugees in Germany had chosen. Or maybe living like in Dubai or Qatar.

Needed is a new Grand Vision of a postwar order with peace, freedom and prosperity. Good for all people living in the Holy Land. This task is God-given.

China and Russia love to nail down their main adversary USA in the Middle East again and inflame the New South against Washington. This practice reduces international attention and pressure on their own aggressive Ukraine or Taiwan policies.

Europe prefers empty words most of the time. It has assumed an opportunistic view by refusing to mess with so many other countries in the UN, anyone in the Arab world and pro-Palestinian protesters at home.

Shite Iran, with the prospect of soon possessing nuclear weapons, needs its radical proxies (like Hamas, Hisbollah and the Houthis) to contain the United States and Sunni Saudi Arabia and dominate the Middle East.

The Arab countries continue to give in to the pressure of the street and Al Jazeera propaganda. Many distrust Hamas but prefer to remain silent.

Israel will never be able to change that in the near future. The decades-long Israel bashing and blame game is too seductive for conventional politicians of all kinds in many countries.

No acceptable and creative peace plan can therefore be expected. The pressure of the radicals, the incited population and the media is too great for that, and the Arab politicians' own benefit is too small. Soap bubbles. That is why so many efforts have failed.

It was quite different when there were tangible common interests and advantages with neighbors such as Egypt or Jordan. That worked.

Israel should understand this crisis as a ‘time of change’, as an invitation to think and plan everything anew. Turning away from old paths and blinkers. A turning point. A new beginning.

Following the example of the first German chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the darkest hours of German history in 1945, Israel should embrace the wisdom of genius Albert Einstein. He is our role model and symbol of humanity, creativity and intellect for any Mission Future.

Einstein said:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“We cannot solve the problems of the world on the same level of thinking on which we have created them.”

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Therefore, Israel should plan and try something new and visionary with humanity, creativity, and effectiveness. The old approach has failed.

Israel should draw a lesson from German history after 1945: Develop a positive grand vision for the future, a Mission Future Holy Land with a Holy Land Union, a project the EU started in the 1950ies.

4. 4.

Israel should not wait for an agreement with the PLO or the Arab States, but just start the implementation of peace step by step, stone by stone now.

An independent pragmatic active puzzle strategy with hundreds of peace stones patiently placed.

A Do-it-yourself dual strategy of hard and soft peacemaking factors.

Including reconciliation with the moderate Palestinians, promoting respect - instead of a “Greater Israel” ideology. Reducing the radicals on both sides step by step with a containment policy for peace.

With a Mission Future of heart and mind, based on humanity (freedom and tolerance), creativity and effectiveness.

Something former Shin Bet chief (1996-2000) admiral Ami Aylon has been demanding for years:

“We have to completely change our entire posture. There was a complete lack of understanding about what Hamas actually is. It was thought that we could manage it. As a result, we strengthened Hamas and transferred funds. We thought that we separate Hamas in Gaza from the PLO in Judea and Samaria. The heads of the Shin Bet resisted all the way and warned the political echelon.

Hamas is a fundamentalist organization that when it doesn’t succeed becomes more radical. This happened with the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda in Iraq, which became ISIS. Hamas is a cruel mutation of ISIS. We must eliminate its military force and political leadership.  It is not a war of revenge, but of defense. But we are not at war with the Palestine people. Now we are in a war without a political goal.

Hamas is an ideology that cannot be eliminated by force, rooted among millions. It can only be eliminated with an idea that overcomes this ideology. A political horizon. A political settlement. Taking years. Pragmatic groups in the Palestine society need to be strengthened. The Palestine Authority is not capable of that.”

Palestinian peace activist Professor Sari Nusseibeh demanded as well:

“There is currently anger on both sides. The Palestinians live under constant threat and violence. If elections were held today, many would vote for Hamas. We must address the roots. We can only achieve peace if each side is prepared to fully accept, recognize and respect the other. We must be able to trust each other again. Israel has relied solely on its military might. It should rather build bridges to the hearts of the Palestinians."

Integrating best practices from all over the world as well the wisdom and ideas of Arab friends, like the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt or Jordan, into the plans, including ideas from Saudi-Arabia. Talking with Qatar as well.

Let peace flow drop by drop until it becomes a strong river.

With a solid new grand design.

Not wishful thinking.

Not new wine in old bottles again.

The old peace strategy of a two-state solution - now propagated again as the philosopher's and diplomat’s objective by the White House, the Europeans and some Arab governments - is built on quicksand without a reconciliation and reform program and is bound to fail if the radicals take power in the new Palestinian state.

Pursuing a comparable approach, the handover of the Gaza Strip in 2005 (very naively co-planned by U.S. National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State Condolezza Rice) was built on sand and failed with the expulsion of Fatah by Hamas in 2007.

The order of peacemaking is crucial. Israel made a mistake withdrawing   from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli settlements there were even destroyed beforehand, what a sign of hatred.

Therefore, a pure focus on a two-state solution is wrong.

What is required, is a broader, smart overall strategy encompassing these cornerstones:

The overall goal should be a Holy Land Union, including Gaza, Palestine, Israel as well as Jordan, the Great Peace Solution. It needs reconciliation as a soul.

It starts with joint projects (as in the European Union in the 1950ies) and a Great Reconciliation. This new design must be planned, announced by Israel and its partners, negotiated with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan as well as the Abraham Accord partners, and signed as soon as possible. Giving all people in the region a clear sign of hope, dignity and peace. Containing the radical forces.

After this first cooling and reconciliation phase and a democratic reform of the PA (possibly lasting five years), the new Palestine state is installed, or an association of the West Bank with Jordan is bound to follow. The conditions and borders are negotiated in the cooling period, supported by the U.S., Egypt and Saudi Arabia and the Abraham Accords nations.

All funding for Palestine, like for UNRWA, must be stopped now and channeled to a more efficient and credible Holy Land Union Foundation, best set up far away in Geneva in order to prevent corruption. Not controlled by the UN, which has failed dramatically and is in-transparent and not credible anymore, but by a council of all donators. Controlled online and publicly with AI and annual reports to the people.

The land-for-peace or strategic depth- thinking is outdated now.

It seems absurd: Israelis and Palestinians are still arguing over olive trees and poor land without much revenue, as they did in the 1940s.

Today, however, the prosperity of any state in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is no longer about agriculture and olive trees, but about modern infrastructure, education and knowledge. It is about INTEL or TESLA factories and luxury hotels in the West Bank with thousands of well-paid jobs. That is why Singapore, Dubai, Doha or the USA and Europe are so successful as the places of longing for many young Palestinians. That is why they leave Palestine, and it still is a more or less rotten place. Without the few talented people, no future.

The support given to the PA so far has prevented all of this as a result of old thinking, corruption and incompetence. If this outdated UN approach continues, there can be no good future for the young generation.

Israeli settlers like to talk about strategic depth, which may be necessary for defense. But in the age of satellites, missiles, drones and cyber warfare, it is no longer a matter of a few kilometers that a tank or soldiers have a head start when attacking. It's about new intelligent defenses, such as Arrow 3 against missiles. It's about intelligence and advance warning and how you interpret them correctly. But that was precisely the weak point on October 7, 2023. Rethinking security is necessary. More land does not mean more security.

The status of Jerusalem is still seen as an obstacle.  Quite the contrary, it should be considered the new Holy City of Reconciliation, dignity for all, hope and peace.

In 1947/48, the UN proposed a neutral status for the center. This corresponds with the importance and dignity of this city, which is holy to three religions.

A fresh neutral status of the Old Town could be negotiated and shaped by the top leaders of the three influencial Abrahamian religions.

This would be a great sign of reconciliation.

Jerusalem should become the Headquarters of The Holy Land Union, in the Old City and center. An Abrahamian Family House, as was built in Abu Dhabi in March 2023, should be erected next to it. It could become a political center of regional peace-making, which meets the religious purpose of the three religions.

8.

Do not focus on the Palestine Authority leadership anymore. It is too old, too ineffective and stuck in the past.

Help to establish a new fresh democratic Mission Future Party for Palestine, which shares the vision of democracy, freedom, prosperity and peace. Empower young people who think like their contemporaries in Israel or Europe.

9.

Announce and initiate a new economic zone step-by-step, The Holy Land Union.

Using the EU as a role model, which developed a new peace order step-by-step starting 1950 in war-torn Europe.

This Holy Land Union would include Israel, Gaza and Palestine, maybe Jordan as well. Later it could encompass Lebanon and Egypt in a regional council.

Start to design an economic plan like in Europe after World War Two, for a new Holy Land Union.

This is the highway to peace, as history has shown in Europe.

Including a huge investment program, reforms in the PA and a modern state designed for the 21^st century.

Use the best ideas of the Trump plan from 2020 with an investment of 50 billion dollars. This detailed plan can be implemented in many parts, even without the agreement of the PLO and all Arab states. Combine it with other ideas in different action tools for a new Mission Future Holy Land.

Supported by the U.S., the EU, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. With a fresh joint management of young Israelis and Palestinians. Promoting joint ventures, water projects, schools, universities, highways or farming.

Do not wait for a peace treaty. Act now.

Start today and build peace step by step.

Remove the wall of mistrust and hate stone by stone.

Learn from the global peacemakers.

Peace will ultimately be achieved.

All ideas starting with a big master peace agreement have failed since 1936 and will fail in the near future.

Leave controversial details unresolved. Integrate everyone, except for extremists.

Contain the radicals.

Zero tolerance for intolerance.

Deprive extremists of their hate-pools breeding terrorists.

Keep them from conquering the souls and hearts of people.

Divide et impera.

10.

The vision and concept for The Holy Land must be based on humanity, which includes freedom and tolerance. In this concept there is no place for extremists of all kind and on both sides. Contain and impeach them.

The new policy should be based on a ‘thinking heart and a loving mind.’

A Realpolitik with heart and mind, with humanity, creativity and effectiveness.

What is needed is a fresh young leadership in Palestine, peacemakers, like Adenauer and de Gaulle in Europe, as well as a clear reconciliation policy.

Defense capabilities and military actions against terrorists are necessary and help defend peace and freedom.

Of course, peace for Israel rests on credible deterrent forces, including nuclear weapons. That is a basic necessity.

But hawks alone cannot bring lasting peace to Israel.

Something important is missing.

Incorporate détente and reconciliation as important parts of the raison d’état of the State of Israel. Israel needs a new creative dual survival strategy of Uzi and olive branch or hawk and dove to survive. Current Israeli policy ignoring this promising strategy of peacemaking failed on 7 October 2023 resulting in blood and tears.

Reconciliation should be increasingly placed in the center of Israeli policy as the second missing pillar of a successful peace strategy.

Eric Hoffer said: “A war is only won after you have turned your enemy into your friend.”  Germany successfully accomplished this goal after 1945 with its former arch-enemies France and the United Kingdom, as well as with Poland.

Reconciliation must start at home. Peace needs a united Israel.

To turn Israel into a theocratic, nationalist autocracy was a masterplan to divide the country, teared it apart before the attack, and weaken its strength. It was good for the enemies of Jews only.

Holding on despite the protest of so many people, especially young people, the future of Israel, was neither wise nor productive. It was the tragedy before the tragedy.

It is important to give up the controversial judicial reform ideas (already stopped by the courts), get the protesters into the Israeli family and unite the people.

It is essential to follow the young generation and their dreams, not the grandfathers.

It is important to reconcile the peace activists and the settlers with more dialogue, the mother language of humanity. It helps to forge enemies into opponents and opponents into new friends.

13.

 A pragmatic reconciliation with many friendly steps, symbols of hope for Palestinians and Jews is needed as well, like the Germans did.

Follow Rabbi Hillel The Elder, who said:

לחברך תעשה אל עליך ששנוא מה

Rabbi Hillel The Elder, Sabbath 31a:
”Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.”

Make the lives of Palestinians better and happier.

In Israel and the West Bank and Gaza after the war.

Contain the radicals inside and outside.

Happy people don’t kill, don’t make war.

Make the Palestinians happier and the Israelis safer.

Read our Action Proposal Happiness for more details here.

Start a broad dialogue on the local and regional level with all groups.

Establish your own large social network forum platforms “Mission Future Holy Land” for millions of Palestinian internet users (like Taiwan, Iceland, Estonia did successfully for its people) to discuss and contain hate and propaganda (use Your Priorities, pol.is, Mission Future AI).

Make as many Palestinians as possible your new friends.

Give them humanity, hope, dignity, jobs and freedom.

A much better vision of a happy life than terror.

Netanyahu's strategy until October 7, 2023, was the opposite.

But it failed.

Einstein told us: “Do not repeat again and again and expect other results.”

In 2018, a law was passed that defined Israel as “the Nation-State of the Jewish people” and declared as well that “Jews had the unique right to exercise self-determination in its territories”. An afront and tremendous provocation against the 21 percent non-Jewish Israelis and the Palestinians in the West Bank and a departure from the declaration of the founding fathers of Israel and Hillel The Elder and true religion. A dead-end road ending in blood and tears October 7, 2023.

The dream of the religious ultra-Orthodox Zionists of Judaizing the occupied land, expand the settlements, drive out the Palestinian population by humiliating them and make it part of Israel, should stay a bad dream.

First, it is against international law. Second, it is a sin against the true teaching of Judaism. Third, it destroys Israel at the very end from inside and outside; like the German nationalists did from 1933 to 1945. Fourth, for security in the 21st century, territory is no longer as crucial as it used to be. Fifth, true peace is better than owning more olive trees.

This old narrow thinking is not the resurrection but the beginning of the end of Israel.

Learn from successful peacemakers.

The Sant’Egidio method for peacemaking was develop during the involvement and successful mediation of the inner war in Mozambique (1977-1992). It is focused on developing many personal relationships. Understanding for the cultures of the belligerent parties involved is crucial. Producing an atmosphere of cooperation. Getting all state and non-state actors involved. No pressure or ultimatums. Use a network of contacts. In a nut-shell broad open and long dialogue with respect for all. Sant’Egidio shows the need for mutual respect in The Holy Land and the need for dialogue to end hate and war.

Learn from Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu and establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, like in South Africa.

Ask Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Al-Azhar Al Sharif in Cairo, to advise the reconciliation meetings of The Holy Land Union.

Integrate their wisdom and influence, like the historic Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, signed in Abu Dhabi on 4 February 2019. Integrate the wisdom of the Chief Rabbis. Make peace in the Holy Land as well a matter of religion and love for humanity.

16.

 Learn from the UAE and copy their religious tolerance policy. Appoint a new Minister of Tolerance and write a National Tolerance Agenda.

Make this an important task of policy in Israel. Announce, finance and build a new Abraham Family House, like done in Abu Dhabi including a mosque, a church and a synagogue.

Build a new Holy Land University in Gaza city, supported by Saudi Arabia.

Free Gaza from Hamas.

Pay for civilian damage in Gaza, as custom in the Arab world, and show good-will.

Build a hospital. Help agriculture.

Establish a fresh young government Mission Future Gaza of peace and prosperity, not the old PLO. Ask the Green Prince for advice.

Make Gaza a showcase of coexistence.

Contain the poison of bias hate-propaganda in the media.

Including Al Jazeera, CNN, YouTube, TikTok or Facebook. By documenting all airstrikes and news and correct propaganda within 24 hours online. By contacting advertisers in each case to stop funding hate-propaganda with their money.

19. Be positive. Germany has proven that a new peace order is possible after the darkest hours of hate and murder. After 1949 Germany rose out of ruins. 1990 it was reunited. Miracles like that can happen. Make them happen.

Filtered out of our deep historical and political analysis of reconciliation in different parts of the world, Mission Future AI proposes these 18 hard and soft tools for a successful reconciliation of Israeli and Palestinians.

Read our Action Manual Reconciliation here.

Reconciliation in the Holy Land could start with these proposals:   

(1.) Never ever give up the hope for reconciliation. Miracles happen. Be an optimist.

It may look like a mission impossible. Be an optimist. Be positive and look back into history. Miracles of reconciliation had happened several times before.

Here just three examples, like from a Hollywood movie with happy ends:

For centuries, Germany and France were so-called ‘archenemies’. They fought no less than three wars against each other in just 74 years (1871; 1914-18; 1940-45). The first was won by the German Empire. France won the last two. Who would have dared to think of a Franco-German reconciliation, or even friendship, after 1945? And yet it was forged. By courageous politicians with heart and mind.

After Germany's total defeat in the Second World War, when it lost the large eastern territories that had been German for centuries (Silesia, Pomerania, East Prussia) to Poland and the USSR, with the brutal expulsion of 12 million Germans, who would ever have thought that this initial situation could be resolved peacefully with forgiveness and a common future in the European Union and NATO?

Who would have thought that soldiers who fought against each other in the Second World War could one day become partners in NATO?

One example is General Johannes Steinhoff (mentor of Mission Future founder Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann). Steinhoff was a flying ace with 136 kills. He was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. A hero in Nazi Germany. When the Bundeswehr was founded in 1955, he joined this new democratic army in the NATO alliance. Became Inspector of the Air Force and in 1971 NATO's highest-ranking soldier as Chairman of the Military Committee. His American deputy was Lieutenant General Edward Rowny (Dr. Hoffmann's mentor too), who had fought against Steinhoff and the Germans in World War II. Now he was his subordinate. They became best friends.

Dr. Fritz Kraemer’s best friend was Ed Rowny. He had to leave Germany (‘with two PhDs and one monocle’, Gen John William Vessey Jr., Chairman JCS) in 1939 because of his Jewish roots. He was drafted into the US Army in 1944, where he met the 19-year-old Henry Kissinger, a Jew from Fürth who had fled to New York with his parents. Older Kraemer became his iron mentor. Both fought in the 84th U.S. Infantry Division against Nazi Germany in the Battle of the Bulge and liberated a concentration camp near Hanover. Kissinger had lost 12 relatives in the Holocaust. Dr. Kraemer's father Dr. Georg Kraemer died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Nevertheless, neither of them was bitter.

Kraemer became the mentor of Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann from 1978 to 2003 and founded the World Security Network with him.

We met Henry Kissinger several times, the last time on his 100th birthday party in his former hometown of Fürth in Bavaria, talking about Mission Future AI.

Both ex-Germans and new-Americans reconciled with their old homeland. They differentiated between evil Nazis and seduced Germans. They campaigned for the protection of Berlin during the blockades, integration into NATO and reunification. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who had served as a first lieutenant in the Luftwaffe, became Kissinger's best friend.

The silent dissolution of the National People's Army (NVA) of the socialist GDR and the integration of young NVA officers into the army of the enemy in 1990 seems almost like a tragicomedy.

Until then, they had faced each other heavily armed as enemies, ready at any time to close in on Germans as Germans. The then Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Klaus Naumann, told Mission Future this unique story of the reconciliation of two German armies:

In 1990 the GDR parliament (Volkskammer) decided to join the Federal Republic of Germany. On August 23, 1990, the Ministry of Disarmament and Defence issued an order to demilitarize combat vehicles, ships and aircraft of the NVA forces. October 3, 1990, reunification of Germany in accordance with Article 23 of the Grundgesetz.

No humiliation. No howls of triumph. Instead, a respectful approach with the former enemies of the NVA in thousands of meetings and in bitter decisions.

Never had such a large enemy army been disbanded so peacefully and parts of it integrated into its own armed forces. This respectful manner  contributed to reconciliation in a divided Germany.

With the demobilization of the NVA, the sites, facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr, which carried out the liquidation. The only unit taken over from the NVA was the tiny Technology Base for Camouflage and Deception.

11,000 of the 36,000 strong officer cadre of the NVA applied to join the Bundeswehr, with 3,200 transferred.

What particularly impressed the current Colonel Ralph Malzahn: "People were never divided into two categories, according to whether they came from East or West." Everyone was given the same opportunity, but the same was also demanded of everyone. "You felt that you were taken seriously and accepted as a comrade."

280 NVA officers began preliminary training at the Luftwaffe Officer School on September 9, 1990, to prepare them for their new duties as officers in the Bundeswehr. The Luftwaffe used 24 East German MIG-29 jets until 2003.

On October 2, 1992, former members of the NVA joined the former hostile Bundeswehr as professional soldiers for the first time.

Today three of the former Warsaw Pact enemies are NATO generals in a democratic united Germany.

These three examples show impressively that reconciliation between former enemies is also possible today.

Even for Palestinians and Israelis.

Nothing is impossible.

You must want, start and implement it creatively and effectively.

(2.) Moral Statesmen and Women Leaders needed.

Historical and political responsibility requires true statesmen to initiate reconciliation in Israel and Palestine. Like the exemplary Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle or Helmut Kohl and Nelson Mandela.

Reconciliation can only succeed if politicians preach and exemplify it from above.

Most politicians know how to start a war, but where are the peacemakers?

The aim of true statemen is to make the people happy- see our Action Manual Happiness for details.

(3.) Golden Champions are the catalysts.

Reconciliation needs spiritual leaders, inspirers, icebreakers, courageous people, the champions of reconciliation with heart and mind. And inspired pioneers, thousands of committed participants, a tsunami of reconciliation.

Needed is the courage for reconciliation.

(4.) Symbols of reconciliation.

Reconciliation needs symbols, getting the people’s attention and catching memories and hope. They release our emotions, needed to clear the souls.

Well know is Nelson Mandela, when at the Rugby World Cup Final in 1995 the new president wore the dress of the pure white national Springbok rugby team, who won. A first celebration of white and black citizens in South Africa.

German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French President Charles de Gaulle celebrated a reconciliation mess for peace in Reims Cathedral July 8, 1962. Famous became a photo when both embraced each other. Both statesmen promised to promote the reconciliation in a united Europe of peace and freedom.

French president François Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl commemorate the Battle of Verdun in 1984, remembering the victims of both sides in the First World War and holding hands in reconciliation. (picture).

Helmut Kohl celebrated a reconciliation mess of the Germans and the Polish at Gut Kreisau November 12, 1989, with Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first non-communist prime minister. Archbishop Alfons Nossol preached. Both statemen embrace each other with the usual Catholic sign of reconciliation. For the first time 3,000 people of the discriminated German minority in Upper Silesia in Poland showed up in the public.

We visited the impressive National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. It is a reminder of the bitter times of slavery, the exploitation and disenfranchisement of black people as labor machines. In the middle of a Christian world and an America striving for freedom. What a disgrace. The museum shows the rocky road to emancipation and liberation and the successes of colored icebreakers. A worthy tribute to the victims and the liberators.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal der Ermordeten Juden Europas) in the center of Berlin, close to the Brandenburger Gate and Reichstag, impresses with 2,711 grey concrete slabs in a grid pattern of 200,000 sq ft since 2005. You can walk through this German Holocaust Memorial and get an impression of the monstrous number of six million murdered Jews. Killed because of the racial mania of a totalitarian dictatorship in which ideology judged people and disenfranchises all opponents and disposes of them as so-called "pests of the people". An ideology of planned genocide, the warning of which is still relevant today.

The memorial shows that reconciliation must always begin with honoring the victims of the past and acknowledging guilt. In other words, with atonement and dignity. This is the base.

(5.) Symbols of successful reconciliation.

In addition to the fighters for reconciliation, a growing number of symbols of successful reconciliation are needed.

In other words, personalities who symbolize the new good and successful reconciliation and better coexistence.

In the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC the two political ice-breakers General Colin Powell, the first African American U.S. National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff und Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, the first female African American Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, followed by U.S. President Barack Obama, are shown at the end of the exhibition. These personalities proof: Yes, reconciliation and fair integration can be done.

(6.) The base is tolerance.

In our world of diversity with 7.8 billion so different people, we have to accept and appreciate that people are very different.

This is God’s DNA of diversity and his will.

We all share the same DNA, as black and white, Americans or Africans.

Tolerance for other people is needed in our world of diversity.

Let us not focus on our differences, but look what we have in common and unites us as human beings globally.

Install a Minister for Tolerance and Reconciliation and a National Tolerance and Reconciliation Agenda.

See all details and our proposals in our Mission Future Action Manual Tolerance.

(7.) Always remember – never forget.

The past with disappointments and horror cannot be undone.

It will be bitter forever and never forgotten.

But you decided to look for a better future as new partner of peace.

We must honor the victims of the time of shadows.

It is our obligation.

Set a symbol yourself- maybe just a flower remembering the victims.

Reconciliate with the up to six million Palestinians outside as well (of 700,000 expelled), as Konrad Adenauer did in Germany after 1945 with Israel and the former arch enemies France and Poland.

Start now with first symbolic payments for lost houses of their grandparents (maybe $ 50,000 each). Respect matters.

Combine it with the memory of 700,000 Jewish refugees from Arab states.

(8.) Justice and reparations.

Reconciliation needs justice, reparation, work on trauma, security building and a long-term and consistent confrontation of the violent past and the guilt of the perpetrators, including their punishment.

Connect with the specialists.

(9.) Spiritual and religious views.

Reconciliation needs heart & mind.

It must include the 3-dimentional human being with all his fears and hopes and roots.

Reconciliation must include the spiritual as well the religious aspects of the local people involved.

It must touch our deepest emotions and set positivity free.

Overcoming the negativity of hate.

A U-turn inside us.

A seldom hour of the stars of humanity.

With passion and human love.

One of those highly emotional moments in our personal life where you have to fight back tears and can hardly speak because it touches you deep down in your soul.

An alliance with the religious and spiritual leaders from both sides is therefore very helpful.

(10.) The Psychology of Reconciliation.

The psychology of reconciliation goes deep into the innermost part of the human being. Into his heart. His soul. His psyche.

"Peace is the Way", Deepak Chopra has been preaching for many years. Mission Future Founders Dr. Hubertus and Yvonne Hoffmann honored him with the Tolerance Award in New York in December 2023. Inner peace comes before outer peace. Forgiveness is needed. Get rid of hate and become happy.

The Dalai Lama told us: “If you want to change the world, begin by changing yourself.”

(11.) Meetings of victims and attackers.

On the personal level victims and perpetrators should meet eye to eye. Best for several hours and more often. Maybe involving the public and media to learn and document. To remember from both sides. Listening to both stories, understanding, searching for common ground and values, maybe even apologizing and forgiving and reaching the new level of planning cooperation together.

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be established in Jerusalem.

(12.) Mutual respect of essence.

Start to discover mutual interests and a common emotion of humanity.

Both sides must show respect for the other.

You see the former enemy through fresh eyes.

(13.) Stop negative stereotypes.

Often lasting negative stereotypes about the other group prevent a fresh start. Therefore, it is necessary to leave those behind and change your view of the other.

(14.) The main code of reconciliation is dignity.

This applies to victims but to aggressors as well.

Show a maximum of dignity.

With many small gestures.

It is like cream for the wounded souls.

Dignity is healing.

(15.) Dialogue – no chancel-walls.

We have to accept that being-different of other people. An enrichment, not a threat. This is difficult for us egocentric people.

We must not build chancel-walls around ourselves, but bridges of encounter.

We must not condemn others because they think differently from us. We must talk to them. Try to understand them. Contain our anger at the other person. A dialog circle around the digital campfire.

The reconciliation process requires dialogue.

Dialogue is the mother language of humanity.

It helps to forge enemies into opponents and opponents into new friends.

Dialogue needs intensive listening, understanding and exchange.

(16.) Great National Reconciliation.

We also need an Inner Reconciliation within many torn countries, day-by-day.

To safe our democratic culture and inner stability.

This is true for Israel and Palestine.

Where groups are hostile to each other. For ethnical or political reasons. We must contain and replace it with a fair and human discussion culture.

Like in the Un-United States of America or other democracies.

Reconciliation is the coronation of inner peace. Peace is the way.

Let’s pray and work for it.

(17.) Patience.

A change of minds from enemy to partner needs patience.

Over a long period of time with talking, reflecting, thinking, feelings and emotions.

It encompasses hearts, minds and souls.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama is a master of patience.

(18.) Stubbornness.

There are always setbacks in waves, old prejudices grow anew.

You must not let this discourage you.

Reconciliation must be preached, learned and exemplified over and over again, otherwise it will die like a flower without water.