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Finding world peace in the living room

Original post made on Jan 12, 2009

Even as students at Stanford University protest the violence in Gaza today, 30 Palestinians and Jews from throughout the Peninsula have been taking a different approach to Middle East relations — learning each other's stories.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 9, 2009, 12:00 AM

Comments

Posted by Karen Harwell
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 12, 2009 at 12:42 am

In reading "Finding world peace in the living room"about the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Groups, I appreciate this story reminding all of us that once we have heard another's story, there is no way our heart cannot take them in — all the judgment, dislike, resistance — diminish as we see one another in new light. Thank you for the hopeful story.


Posted by Walter_E_Wallis
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 12, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Walter_E_Wallis is a registered user.

"Damn the Jews; damn them,"
There is a word for Jews not offended by that statement - ashes and smoke.


Posted by Walter_E_Wallis
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 12, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Walter_E_Wallis is a registered user.

In a concentration camp you are fenced in. The Gazans are fenced out of Israel. If anyone fences them in it is Egypt. Exclusion seems their fate since they were thrown out of their native Jordan without a quiver from their Muslim brothers. Such a pity that the only ones who treat Palestinians like humans are Israeli.


Posted by Marvin
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Jan 12, 2009 at 2:39 pm

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