Keep Hope Alive

"Keep Hope Alive" is based on the memoirs of a 1948 refugee from the Upper Galilee who made his way to the USA and into a career in the Defense Industry with Top Secret Clearance during the Cold War.

"Keep Hope Alive" is also my journey; and I have been to Israel and Palestine three times since June 2005.

"Keep Hope Alive" begins with a group of friends around Khaled's olive wood kitchen table in Buffalo, New York the morning after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

The topics of conversation include the origins of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, the treasures of the Nag Hamadi library and the stages of the soul.

"Keep Hope Alive" explores these topics in detail .
Khaled and his family move to Orlando and friends and loves come and go for "life happens while you are busy making other plans."-John Lennon

"Keep Hope Alive" is also my journey, thoughts and experiences told through the fictional characters of Riad, Jack Hunt, Dr. Jake and Terese Hunter.

These four characters also represent four ways to intuit God: mystery/mystical, the physical, through nature and through creativity.

THAT DAY, we call 9/11 compels the 78 year old Khaled Diab to take a positive action. With help from many friends he founded the non-profit, non-political Olive Trees Foundation for Peace/OTFFP http://www.olivetreesfoundation.org in Orlando, Florida.

"Keep Hope Alive" documents the history of this organization of American Jews, Christians and Muslims who came together to raise awareness and funds to begin to replant the olive trees the separation wall has destroyed. Thus far, 30,000 olive trees have been rooted at schools, churches, temples, mosques and by the neediest of land owners in Israel and Palestine.

I am offering a signed copy for every donation of $25.00 which is
100% tax deductible through the non-profit 501 3-C:
Olive Trees Foundation for Peace

Not only will I send you a book,

You will be providing the funds to purchase an olive tree that will be planted in Gaza during this planting season which begins in November.

100% of your donation is 100% tax deductible in the USA when made out to the
OLIVE TREES FOUNDATION for Peace

your check will be your only receipt!

Write checks to:
Olive Trees Foundation for Peace

Mail to-
We Are Wide Awake
Post Office Box 120321
Clermont, Florida 34712

READ MORE:
http://www.wearewideawake.org

"Be the change you want to see in the world."-Gandhi