Peace As Equals

Our Mission

The mission of Peace As Equals is to peacefully and permanently end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by rallying people to unite for peace and prosperity based on the inherent equality of all human beings.

Conflict Is Not Inevitable

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is due to conflicting assertions of group privilege and superiority that have been used as justifications to demean, devalue, damage, and destroy. It is only by embracing our inherent equality that these conflicting assertions are nullified. All of us, not just Israelis and Arabs, not just Muslims and Jews, must view and value each other as equals to end these types of longstanding conflicts.

About Us

Peace As Equals was created in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023 by Hamas militants in Gaza on Israeli noncombatants and the ensuing retaliatory invasion of Gaza by Israeli Defense Forces. We see the tremendous tragedies being experienced by both Israelis and Palestinians as unnecessary outcomes of the refusal to accept their inherent equality.

Not Moral Equivalence

Inherent equality does not pretend that defending and attacking are morally equivalent. Rather, inherent equality acknowledges that the inherent value of a human life does not differ, such as due to one's ethnicity, residency, religion, beliefs, or behavior.

Pro not Anti

Rallying for inherent equality is neither anti-Israeli nor anti-Palestinian but rather both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli, because it is pro-Humanity. Rallying for inherent equality encourages the cessation of violence and mutual consideration among equals.

A Truthful and Global Narrative

One Family Tree

No ethnic, religious, national, or other group is inherently superior to any other, because superiority is a judgment — and judgments always depend on who is doing the judging. In reality, human beings are all just different leaves and branches of the same family tree. In the family of humanity, Arabs and Jews are cousins.

Self Defense

Everyone has the right to defend themselves when attacked. Yet, stories of the need to defend have been used to justify attacks on noncombatants in nearly every war ever fought. When stories of defense lead to the attack of noncombatants, others can just as easily create their own stories of defense, which can lead them to “counterattack” noncombatants, which can lead to counter “counterattacks”, and so on, in a never-ending cycle of violence against noncombatants.

Ending Violence

Cycles of violence continually damage the family tree of humanity and therefore must be stopped in order to protect the health of the tree. It is our shared responsibility to stop harming our family tree by no longer harming any of its branches. Because superiority is based only on personal judgments, assertions of any inherent superiority by one over another are inherently false. They are akin to claiming that one branch of a tree is inherently superior to another.

Refusing Fear

To rid ourselves of the conflicts created by falsehoods, humanity must be honest with itself and stop believing in lies. Fear is the most convincing of all liars. Fear is a liar that only cares for itself, fueling anger, rage, and hatred, while simultaneously objecting to love. Fear does not care what damage it causes nor whom it hurts. Fear only cares to maintain, replicate, and spread itself, deeming itself forever self-justified. For ultimately fear is a virus, a blight upon the tree of humanity. To stop believing in lies, we must stop believing in the stories of fear.

Actual Defense

In truth, no story can justify the murder of those who mean no harm, not even stories of defense. Actual defense can only happen when one is actually being attacked, not when one is merely reacting to the lies of fear. Vengeance breeds vengeance and retaliation breeds retaliation because violence is incapable of bringing about true peace. True peace is the peace of the living, not the peace of the dead.

True Peace

We, the family tree of humanity, inherently desire to flourish, not merely to heal from further damage.To pick one group in a conflict over another is to pick one branch of a tree over another, while ignoring that the conflict itself is due to the tree being ill with the virus of fear. It is far wiser and saner to be pro-tree than merely pro-branch. To be in favor of true peace is to be both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli. To be against true peace is to be anti-Humanity.

Light of Truth

We must shine the light of truth on the lies of the Palestinians, and the lies of Israel, and the lies of Iran, and the lies of Russia, and the lies of America... We must shine the light of truth on the lies we tell ourselves and each other. For we are all aspects of a single family tree. The tree of humanity seeks to flourish in the light of truth, because the light of truth is the light of love — and love fuels life. To heal the tree of humanity, we must love the entire tree, because love is the antidote to fear.

Pro-Humanity

For you to truly be either pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli, you must also be pro-truth, pro-love, pro-equality, pro-Arab, pro-Jew, pro-Muslim, and indeed pro-Humanity. To support the flourishing of one branch, you must support the flourishing of the entire tree. That is the true nature of what it means for us to be leaves and branches of Humanity, the human family tree. That is the true nature of our inherent equality.

Being Called

We call on you to choose love over fear, truth over falsehood, life over death, and equality over superiority. We call on you to state your choice loudly and clearly such that every militant group, every government, every politician, and indeed everyone in the world knows your choice. Shine the light of love and truth upon those seeking to hide in the shadows of fear and falsehood. And, yes, that includes the aspects of yourself seeking to hide as well.

Join with Us

As a new nonprofit organization, we need your help to succeed in our mission. To find out about volunteer opportunities or request more information, please contact us at:

1800 Wazee Street, Suite 300
Denver, Colorado 80202
United States of America

email@PeaceAsEquals.org

Let's End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Together.