Last night, the Seder meal at the home of friends. The beauty of it all, candles, wine, ritual, bitter herbs and unleavened bread, and I heard words of peace. We have a heritage, we Judeo-Christians, of valuing peace. We just don't live it. I've looked for them today, last night's Haggadah words of peace, but cannot find them. So I offer these instead, found at the Americans for Peace Now website:

(Submitted by Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon, Pesach 5762/2002)
(May be recited at the end of the time of Elijah's Cup or at the end of the seder)

Mekor HaHayyim, Oseh HaShalom,
O God, Source of Life, Creator of Peace,
In this hour of horror and destruction,
Of panic and fear,
Send Your consolation to the mourners,
Your healing to the wounded,
And Your courage and patience to the Israeli and Palestinian peoples
So that they may withstand these dreadful moments.
Help Your creatures, anguished and confused,
To understand the futility of hatred and violence
And grant them the ability to stretch across political, religious and national boundaries
So they may resume the search for justice, peace and truth.

On this Festival of our Liberation,
Help us to free ourselves from the straits of narrow-mindedness,
From the prejudices and patterns of behavior
That keep us chained in an endless circle of victims and victimizers.
Help us to free ourselves,
By freeing each other, from the need to inflict suffering and pain.

May all Your creatures be guided by the vision of Your prophets:
"Venatati shalom ba-aretz ushekhavtem ve-ein mahrid,
I will bring peace to the land and you shall lie down and no one shall terrify you."
"Let love and justice flow like a mighty stream
Let peace fill the earth as the waters fill the sea."

With every fiber of our being we beg You, O God,
To help us not to fail nor falter in the path of peace.
Amen.