Chairs to Negotiate
OneVoice Israel just commenced an exhibit titled "Till White Smoke Emanates" urging the Israeli and Palestinian heads of state to continue negotiations non-stop till they strike an agreement (the only missing ingredient in the leaders’ commitment to "ongoing" but not "uninterrupted" negotiations, as the OneVoice Mandate urges).
The "white smoke" concept is borrowed from when Archbishops close themselves off and don’t come out of a big hall till the Pope has been selected. The Exhibit revolves around 24 wood chairs that Israeli artists were asked to transform into statements about this issue.
Their Exhibit is now on display at Itzhak Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Another article about it in Hebrew is here.
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