Peace Messenger Painted in oil in honor of the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord, by Israel and Palestine facilitated by US President Bill Clinton in 1993. There is a lot of imagery in this painting. The large and beautiful angelic dove glimmers in white light while holding an olive branch in its beak. The Dove as the Shechinah brings blessings of peace to the world, to the hot bed region that has been at war since days of old. The desert land shapes are a portion of the map of Israel and its neighbor countries and the Mediterranean Sea as the setting. The red and orange parts of the sun represent enflamed energy from the centuries of hurt feelings. The dashes of white spiraling light energy at the center of the sun represent hope and healing. Notice that the Hebrew print of the word Shalom (Peace) are written in white open letters showing the red-hot angry passion being cooled off by the blue healing waters of the Mediterranean Sea. There is a purple with red heart-shaped shadow of the dove on the water. The red represents all the blood lost to a millennium of fighting. The Purple Heart honors all those who lost their lives.