Toward Life-Coherent Peace in the Middle East
Sacred Memory, Structural Violence, and the Protection of the Life-GroundBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 8m
About this audiobook
Toward Life-Coherent Peace in the Middle East offers a life-grounded framework for rethinking one of the world’s most wounded conflict systems. Moving beyond victory logic, punitive security, sacred entitlement, and moral denunciation, Dr Bichara Sahely asks what must be protected so that all affected peoples can live, grieve, remember, repair, and flourish without destroying the life-ground of others. Drawing on life-value ethics, peace theory, autopoiesis, structural violence analysis, and sacred memory, this audiobook proposes a simple but demanding discipline: no wound denied, no wound enthroned. Jewish trauma, Palestinian dispossession, Israeli fear, Arab and Muslim humiliation, Iranian insecurity, minority vulnerability, and external manipulation must all be acknowledged — but none may justify new life-destruction. Peace here is not the silence after violence, but the organized presence of life-supporting conditions.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Philosophy
Length1 hr 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
401967 — Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza
2Author’s Opening Note
411979 — The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
3Opening Dedication
421993 — The Oslo Accords
4From the 2017 Cry to the Present Framework
432006 Onward — Gaza, Hamas, Blockade, and Repeated Wars
5Method and Scope
447 October 2023 and After — Attack, Hostages, War, and Regional Escalation
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6Why the Conflict Cannot Be Solved at the Level at Which It Is Usually Framed
452024 — International Legal Intervention
7The Failure of Victory Logic
462024 to 2025 — Ceasefire Proposals and Transitional Architectures
8The Failure of Symmetry Without Justice
47The Life-Ground Pattern
9The Failure of Sacred Absolutism
48Glossary of Core Terms for Listeners
10The Three Foundational Lenses
49Life-Ground
11McMurtry: The Life-Ground Test
50Life-Value
12Galtung: Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
51Life-Blindness
13Maturana: Emotioning, Languaging, and Legitimate Coexistence
52Direct Violence
14A Life-Coherent Diagnosis of the Middle East Conflict System
53Structural Violence
15Wounds Converted into Weapons
54Cultural Violence
16The Life-Ground Under Assault
55Positive Peace
17External Capture and the Political Economy of War
56Sacred Memory
18The Legal-Humanitarian Baseline
57Wound-Sovereignty
19The Life-Coherent Peace Protocol
58Legitimate Life-Need
20Movement One: Protect the Life-Ground First
59Domination Strategy
21Movement Two: Name All Wounds Without Weaponizing Them
60Civil Commons
22Movement Three: Distinguish Life-Needs from Domination Strategies
61Structural Coupling
23Movement Four: Transform Sacred Memory into Custodial Responsibility
62Emotioning
24Movement Five: Build Civil-Commons Peace Infrastructure
63Languaging
25Movement Six: Create Participatory Truth, Mourning, and Repair Processes
64Wu-Wei, or Non-Forcing Action
26Movement Seven: Disarm the Political Economy of Perpetual War
65Life-Coherence Arbitration
27What Wu-Wei Means Here
66Life-Coherence Arbitration Worksheet for Listeners
28The Life-Coherence Arbitration Test
67Step One: Identify the Affected Living Unities
29Policy Implications
68Step Two: Identify the Life-Capacities at Stake
30Immediate Priorities
69Step Three: Distinguish Life-Needs from Domination Claims
31Medium-Term Priorities
70Step Four: Identify Irreversible Harms
32Long-Term Priorities
71Step Five: Search for Compossible Options
33Conclusion: No Wound Denied, No Wound Enthroned
72Step Six: Apply Minimum Sufficient Restraint
34Closing Reflection
73Step Seven: Build Feedback and Repair
35A Listener’s Historical Timeline
74The Final Arbitration Question
361917 — The Balfour Declaration
75Note on the Academic Edition
371922 to 1947 — British Mandate Palestine
76Acknowledgements
381947 — The United Nations Partition Plan
77About the Author
391948 — The Creation of Israel, War, and Palestinian Displacement
78AI Research and Editorial Collaborator Note
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