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Is this the way to peace for Palestine and Israel?

Matt Easton on Jun-29-2012

Take a look at what some people are doing:

http://www.everestpeaceproject.org/about_us.php

Everest Peace Project – About Us

http://www.everestpeaceproject.org/training_for_peace.php

Everest Peace Project -Training for Peace

http://www.sulha.com/

Sulha Peace Project_peace.php

How would you create a brighter future for Palestine and Israel?

I’m part of the Sulha project…
There are many grassroot peace projects, organisations and movements in Israel and Palestine – we all try to do what we can to get together and learn/teach others that the "other", the "ennemy" is HUMAN as well, because both people have been brainwashed about the "other" being monsters for years and years…
Our main problem is exactly that – the effect of propaganda on the minds of too many people, and the incompetence (or maybe: non-willingness) of our governments to really bring peace to a conclusion… The people themselves want peace, but the leaders seem to be the obstacle…
To show you some of the many projects, organisations, even institutions that work for peace, I’ll give you some other links from a list of activist organisations I’m right now preparing for www.mideastyouth.org

Combatants For Peace

http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/

B’tselem

http://www.btselem.org/English/

Gisha – Legal org. for the freedom of movement of Palestinians

http://www.gisha.org/

Gush Shalom

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/index_en.html

Yesh Din [=there is a Law]
Defense of Palestinians rights against settlers

http://www.yesh-din.org/site/index.php

Public committee against torture in Israel

http://www.stoptorture.org.il/eng/

Yesh Gvul [=there is a limit]
Soldiers who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories

http://www.yeshgvul.org.il/index_e.asp

ICAHD Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

http://www.icahd.org/

Anarchist against the Wall

http://www.awalls.org/about_aatw

Adalah – The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights in Israel

http://www.adalah.org/eng/index.php

Breaking the silence
Soldiers who speak out about the horrors they’ve seen or had to participate in
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article192 74.htm

Checkpoint Watch

http://www.machsomwatch.org/en

Bat Shalom, Women’s Peace Organization

http://www.batshalom.org/

THE FAMILIES FORUM
Members of the Forum include hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families who have lost, as a result of the Israeli-Arab conflict, a first degree family member and accepted the principles and objectives of the Forum

http://www.theparentscircle.com/

and many others… you can see, the list is long…
Our way is to build brigdes, to prepare a territory on which, one day, peace can live…