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TUB Orrvp Bnaxch TUB Orrvp BnaxcH The Olive Branch is a quarterly youth magazine written and edited by youth from Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, FYROM, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Romania, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, Yugoslavia and the United States, who are part of the Seeds of Peace program. Tun Olrvr BnlNcu Staff Ned Lazarus, Editor-in-Chief Lany Malm, Roy Sharone, Jared Fishman, Jen Marlowe, EditoriaL Staff Contributing Writers & Artists Balkans: Dzemila Helac, Iskra Klinkarova, Jelena Traskovic, Menima Spahic, Miranda Katajazi, Mirkica Popovic, Mladen Pejicic, Nita Himaduna, Xenija S moljan i c. Zana Zeqii. Cyprus: Anna Pieridou, Cise Sakalli, Erdem Serifoglu, Kiki Papaioannou, Maria Morouti, Marios Spyrou, Melek Meray, Nikoletta Christou, Sevillay Kucuksu, Umut Aypar. Middle East: Amitai Sarvicki, Asad Hassonih, Asma' Ma'aloul, Avigail Shoham, Bushra Mukbil, Dina Jaber, Elad Shaffer, Eiman Abdel-Baki. Inbal Lebovitz, Inbal Shacked, Lana Mansour, Karen Karniol-Tambour, Lana Mansour, Liat Margalit, Liav Hertsmann, Lina Jarad, Ma'ayan Poleg, Mai Abuemara, Mariam Bazeed, Maya Vaks, Mona Bushnaq, Nidaa Nassar, Ofer Bar-El, Ramzi Abu Jazar, Rinat Gilad, Rita Konaev, Roy Cohen, Sara Khatib, Shereen Adel, Shorouk Swiety, Tal Karni, Tarek Arow, Waffa Takroori, Ya'ara Mann, Ya'el Nir, Zachi David, Zeina Aljalad. USA: Britney Dupre, Chelsey Berhn,Fayeza Aziz, Hannah Lantos. Special thanks to: Abu Lany, Alan Hyman, Alan Ginsburg, The Asleh family, Ben, Beit Berl, Beit Sturman, Berky B, Christine, Cynthia, Dafnalia, Daveed, Dar Al-Jundi, Facilitation Team, Fullbright Foundation in Cyprus, Issa, Jeremy Stein, John Hatch, Julie, The Henshels, Ladel, Mandy, Marieke, Mer, Mike, Michael S., Nicole, Rami, Sranley Abrams. All submissions are the property of Seeds of Peace, and may be edited lor length, content or style. Send submissions and corespondence to: Tnn OlrvB Bnlncs c/o Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence P.O. Box 25045, Jerusalem 97300 T el. 97 2-2-582-0222 F ax. 97 2-2-582-2221 Email: olivebranch@seedsofpeace,org TsE Or-rvn BneNcH is printed by Ma'ariv; Adi Saranga & Olga Kotliarov, graphic designers. Seeds of Peace John Wallach, Founder and President Bobbie Gottschalk, Executive Vice President Tim Wilson, Vice President and Camp Dit'ector Barbara Zasloff, Vice President Christine Covey, Vice President Lindsay Mtller, Vice President Center for Coexistence Staff, Jerusalem Adam Shapiro. Diretta Ned Lazarus, Program Director Hurvaida Anaf , Regional Coordindtrn' Jared Fishman, Regional C oordinator Jen Marlowe, Regional Coordinator Larry Malm, Regional Coordinator Inspiration My one reaction to all of this has been grief and mourning. I believe that rvhen pepple die it I got Asel's tribute a ferv days ago. I read each does not matter anymore who is right, what Letters and every ',vord of it, rvhich made me feel caused it, and rvho is to blame, has grown much spiritually connected to this distinctive sffonger. I am amazed at people's reactions to individual. I have never felt this rvay before. I death. While they sit and discuss, argue and Friends From the Start felt I had a friend, a very understanding one, accuse I sit and think, "people are dying." The comfortable rvrth his tvords, peacefui by his sides disappear and I just think about the. My name is Liav Hertsman and l'm a Seed looks, and loving to his friends. Knorving that grieving families. friends and neighbors. All from 199,1. I ivish to tell those r'vho are a year or he is derd norr. I fell that I lost a source of hope. over this piece of land. people are crying. trvo removed fiorn camp hol important your Someone who rvas a big'supporter of all of us, The moment this emotion struck me most camp friendships are. Thel ale amrzing. like no r'vho made us take the hardest steps in life, rvho intensely, r'vas r,vhen I read Asel's book. I had other friendships you will evel have, and you made us bclier.e in ourselves. altd do rvhat rve never met Asel in my life. The only connection should do whatever you can to stay in touch. I think is right. I just keep looking at his iace I have to him is the one of a fellor'v Seed. I read knorv it is sometimes frustrating, to see ivishing that I had such a person in my life, even what everyone wrote about him, the things,he international politics affecting your relationships knorving that I may face pain later. I remember said, and I sai'v the pictures of him. A person with close friends. But I knorv that these readin-{ something he wrote, saying ihat we portrayed before me. He is gone. My heart friendships are rvorth it. During the seven years don'l har e lhe porier to bring back the dead. but ached like il had never before. When lhe ones since camp I tried to keep in touch rvith we are powqful'enough to remember them. who loved him cannot accept lvhat happened to Egyptian and Palestiniun l'riends. Unforttrnatell. Thank you Asel. him. what do lhey do? What would my family militarl service and distance disconnecled me Sara Khatib (Amman) do ii it happened me? from most. But I just came back notv from rt As I rq,ad the tribute, I felt that I would have weekend in Amsterdam rvith my best Seed Learningfrom the Loss done anything to bring him back. To let Asel friend, Tamer Nagy from Egypt. After years of live his life the same way I rvant to. To still be not seeing each other, the meeting r,vas beyond Thloughout pilst monlhs. my mosl distinct here, npt to be forced to leave this rvorld. I felt lvords. After seven years rve still enjoy each emotion has been grief. Many times, I have that I rvould do anything to stop his family's other's company. Just imagine yourselves rvith tried to look rvithin me and understand rvhat pain,-{o- relieve them""lo comfort the people your Seed friends in iive years. I hope in the these horrors are doing to me. Impatience and rvhose lires have been shadorved forever. I future we can meet as adults, Seeds fiom 1993 confusion buriegi my understanding of horv long couldn't stop crying. I have never moumed like through 2000. As aduits rve could arrange it it takes lbr the process ol'understanding lo this in my life and I was mourning for a person ourselves. So come on. all interested in keeping evolve. I hrre also found rhat I chose to ignore I never knew. Mourning because, due to all this in touch. contact me. I crn'l stop accusing the exlernal dangers in order to avoid fearn and madness, Asel is a person I never will know. myself for not keeping in touch rvith Asei, who lhat for some reeson I caunot find anger in me. Avigail Shoham (I erusalem) was a dear friend. I cherish his memory. If any people who knorv me read this, get in touch! All m1'lot,e and sleport, The Secretary of State Liav H ertsman (Tel-Avit' ) Washington Remembering the Future March 21, 20Al People of Peace, I received the Olive Branch Dea: Jchn: and Asel's book yesterdal . I urs o\eluome ThanK -vou very much for your March 9 letter and for the two Seeds with emotion by both. I never met Asel, but I cf Peace neckties. Seeds of Peace epttomizes the type of effort so am still'deeply touched. Through my fellorv iesperatel,v needed rn the Middle East to bring Arabs and Israelrs an acntact iriith one another at a personai level. so about Asel. I cried. It Seeds I learned much n-o ore \ t 1. L Llo6'jLo o'lo 'o e- 6cLlve-y t-at^d by was sad and inspirational at the same time. It Seeds of Peace among Arab and Israeli teenagers is a1l too rare, as the l-rust gave me a deeper understanding of tvhat Seeds past six months have clearly demonstrated. Itlith the level of ber,^'een Israel and the Palestinians badly frayed, both sides need to of Peace stands for, and horv hard rve must rvork beccme conr.'lced once again that they in fact have a parLner in peace ' for the future, our future! The Unrted Sta*-es has .rrged Israel and the Palestinians to take steps I was also deeply moved by the Olive Branch. to restore mu:uar confidence and i:educe the cycle of vrolence, actions --hat we hope can lead to the resumption of a political process. read articles rvritten by my friends. Some told I I '.,ias especially rcuched by ihe Trrbute Book that you sent me stories I had never hearti. I rvrs shocked. honcr ng Asel Asleh. The revoluticn created in the mrnds of many Sometimes I get so caught up in my "everyday Ar:ab and Israeli teerage Seeds of Peace was made clear by the pieces r.^'ritren b\t Asel's Jer,vish-IsraeLi fef low SeeCs about him. I believe American" life that I forget I am part of it is farr to say that the conflict we are currently witnessing something much larger; something that rvill last '.'.rould not be taking place if both sides knew and understood each throughout it all. I am a Seed, a Seecl bf Peacel cther tlle way that AseL and his fellow Seeds did. The Olive Branch reminded me horv much we S incereLy, mean to the future oi this rvorld. I rias rlso n,----,* -,- reminded oi the friendships I made and the i/,/ffi/F memories rve shared.
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