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Truth & Reconciliation in Israel

by Pier Marton | Dec 22, 2012 | Middle-East, Politics, Wars, Women

Mazen Faraj and Robi Damelin … each has faced hostility from their own community. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

From The Guardian: The Israeli and the Palestinian: ‘We have discovered this joint pain’

It was only later, after the intense shock had subsided and a heavy pain was starting to bed in, that Robi Damelin was told what her first words were on hearing that her son had been killed: “You may not kill anybody in the name of my child.” …
A lot of their work is in education: Faraj and other Palestinian members go with their Israeli colleagues to speak in schools, reaching 25,000 students every year…
“This whole idea of being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine – what comes out of that is that you are not helping either nation and you are importing our conflict into your country…. It’s very easy for both the Muslim and Jewish communities in the diaspora not to compromise; they’re not exactly put to the test every day. If you can’t be part of the solution, I would really ask you to leave us alone. I really mean that.”

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2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
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3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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