The other week I wrote about the Visions for Peace Initiative at Tufts. There are other grass-roots movements in Israel and The West Bank, lead by Israelis and Palestinians-including members of bereaved families who lost loved ones and ex-combatants who together advocate for a peaceful resolution to the conflicts. Some of these include Seeds for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace, to name a few. In the spirit of my book, RONIT AND JAMIL, I would like to see more organizations like these, which advocate cooperation and fewer movements like B.D.S., which divests and puts sanctions on everything Israeli. Why make it seem as if the whole country is responsible for the problems in the Middle East, in particular, with Palestine, when there are many more people who would like to discover a peaceful resolution? It is often the leaders who are the problem, not the people in the country, and yes, it is the leaders who must be made more aware of the terrible injustices their visions have created.
Long live the spirit of RONIT AND JAMIL; peace is what we are after.
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