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Fall2002.Pdf Tup Olrvn BnrNcH magaziLre Tlre Olive Branch is a quarrerll lotrth Albanta' uosnta' riritten b1 lotrth lrum Afghrnisliill' Greece' e;l-*.ti.. i."ia, Cyprus' Egypt' FYRoM' Morocco'.the Indi-a, lsrael, Jordan, Kosovo' Romanta' Pul.riini^n AuthoLity, Pakistan' Qatar' United i,titt., irto.v, Ye'men' Yugoslavia and the Seeds of Peace program' States, lvho are part of the THr OI-tvn Bnlxcu Staff Ned Lazarus, Editot-in-Chiel Nahanni Rous' Ethun Sch.cht.', Jen Marlorve' Editot s Walicl Abed Elhacli Asslsrant Contributing Writers & Artists Naim' ,qi*ft""iu*, Abida Attazada' Azar' Makiz *,?'a*n*r, norjib Mashal, Najia' Parnian Zalmai' Srprrr Ra.oul. Weda Saghari Be)if Ceka' ;;k;.t, Arben Letili' Arta O)marraj' lgbrlle Ferrti' Soirn S.*tti. Erblin Mehmeraj' \kl' Ner I Bul.rr ee. Sneska Vase\ Kutlurlp' Cvprus, Greece. 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Rona Harari All submissions be editetl lor o.r.uo of Seeds of Peace' ancl m11 to: i.na,t ..nn,.nt ur il)le send eorrespondence Tus OltvE Bn'rlctl for Coexistence c/o Seeds of Peace Center 97300 P.O. Box 25045, Jerusalem i.i. qzz-z-stz- 0222 F ax' 91 2'2-582-2221 Email: olivebranch@seedsofpeace'org by Ma'artv; THs Oltvn BRANCH is printed Acli Saranga. graPhic designeL' Seeds of Peace John Wallach' Founder Janet Wallach, lntcrim Prcsitlent \/iL:e President Bobbie Gottschalk' Etecarilc Diretto' Tim Wilson, \/ice Ptesident & Camp Barbara Zasloff' \'ite Presiclent Christine CoveY' \'/icr President LindsaY Miller' \/ice Presiclertt Dena Fisher', Esecttttt'e Director Center for Coexistence Staff' Jerusalem R gtt'ton iln..ttt.,, ien Marlowe' Ned Lazarus' "'U,trilt.. Suzr Reuven Barnes'Sami Al-Jundi' Khatib, Walid AbedElhadi -S..0. ot+.oce is a non-profit' non-politic that helps ori-itu,ion 3l ::ilrt"'i;il ,he st'itts"tll-c^:l,t-n::ti ot rnat<ing peace St ;;;i* camP in Maine' a safe envtronmet I'm not living in the West Bank nor Israel but I felt bad. Everybody felt there is no way to have peace again after what happened. My cousins in Bethlehem suffered a lot. They Leffers had already lost their father to cancer, and then they thought they were also going to drel Soldiers occupied their house and gave them a Things Look Different room which they couldn't leave. They were hungry, and scared the soldiers would shoot. No This summer, for the first time, I found myself one can imagine how they suffered. living with teenagers who live the same horrible What kind of life wiil they live when their war fiom the other side. I was sharing the same John WalLaclt ttith Seetls rf Peace childhood was so scary? I don't think they'll be room, eating and talking, for almost four weeks, able to understand any reasons that they were with Palestinian teenagers who want the same you. Palestinians are humans who despise locked in a room and kept hungry! thing we do-to live in peace. We were there to insecurity, and aim for happiness as you do. I don't want more innocent kids fo experience try and live in peace, even for only a short time. The truth is that pain blinds a person who, what they did in April. I want everybody to live We all knew that soon we would be home again, every time he closes his eyes, remembers a the life they deserve, no matter what their back to conflict and war, and that's why we had child killed by Israeli soldiers, or a family religion, nationality or anything. Help them live to use the time and be friends. mourning over the ruins of their destroyed a life that a human being deserves to live. That's I changed a lot since I came back from camp. home. Hatred did blind us all; none of our, or my job in this world. Now I can see, think and even judge this your, acts are right. We have lost our humanity Farah Al Kayed (Amman) conflict from another point of view. This is why by fighting over a piece of land. I wonder, it was sad to see that my friends at home stayed "What does a man gain if he did win the whole The Way is What Matters in the same position. I feel that I moved world but lost himself?" So let us repair now forward, I advanced. During this dreamlike what has been broken, by planting the seed of What is tenor? That's a good question. Deep, camp time, I made my own peace agreement love in our hearts! hard, unciear but good, because identifying with a few Palestinians. If I did, then every "...And I believe that maybe today we will all terrorism is understanding the state of Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian and Egyptian can. get to appreciate the beauty of Gray..," instability and war in the world. Each side I wish all Israeli and Palestinian teenagers Malik Al-Wer (Amman) claims that the other side is terror itself. The would go to Seeds of Peace. I have no doubt USA says that Iraq is a tenorist country and that the conflict would look different to them. A Seed on the Borderline Iraq says the exact opposite. The case is the The campers, Palestinian and Israeli, changed same in many other conflicts around the world, and were starting to undelstand each other. I'm a Seed. Do you know what a Seed is? It's such as Palestine and Israel, India and Pakistan. After all we had experienced, lve learned in not easy to be a Seed, especially in this situation If we say tenor is killing innocents, we are three weeks to live side-by-side in peace. where everything is black. We just came to SOP saying that every counffy in a conflict is a Adir Yanko (Ashkelon) camp and made a white point in the middle of tenorist country, which does not make sense. the darkness. Since I came back from camp I'm If we say that terror is killing innocents for no The Beauty of Gray a new person. I see things drfferently, especially reason. then almost no one in the world is a in the place I live, which is on the border terrorist because killers often think they have a "This is not ct black and .^hite world, and you between Israel and the West Bank. I am a "reason" to kill. The best answer I have is the cannot aJford to believe in your slde. " When I Palestinian-lsraeli. and I can see every action state of fighting against peace. But this answer first received the news that Israelis would and reaction from both sides. Actually I live the is leads us to another question: What is peace? accompany my trip to the Seeds of Peace two lives of both sides at the same time. It's not Is it just the state of no war? Can we consider summer camp, I became more anxious to go. I easy but it's very special, because I believe that Hitler a peacemaker because he wanted peace stafted to collect information about the conflict, everything that makes you different is the same for the Germans ? Some people say that all wars so that I could make the Israeli doubt himself. I thing that makes you special. We are all special seek peace, which is a total contradiction. was preparing myself for a verbal "war." I because we are Seeds, no matter whete we are Peace is the goal we seek. However the way of wanted to teach these Israelis that we Arabs are from. We are the future and the hope, so keep achieving peace is what matters. So we can right and that was enough for me. your hearts open and welcome everyone. either wait until one pafi kills the other and this At camp I saw that these people love, admire, Amani Jaber (Taybeh) killer will have peace, or we can co-exist and and want to live in peace, just like us. So why achieve peace in a harder but better way. prepare myself to "fight" others who want Undeserved Disuster Peace isn't a privilege, it is our right. I don't peace? They are actually on my sidel ask for peace, I demand it. I demand that every It is not that Israelis love war, death, or Last year was like a disaster for everybody in government choose the hard path to peace, destruction. Nor do Arabs. We have many the Middle East. Things rvere happening so which is coexistence, negotiations and things in common. I can understand the hatred rapidly that I barely could take a breath while forgiveness.
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