Shimon Schocken's rides of hope

http://www.ted.com Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes.

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[markus310773]

Good presentation. Not the best I've heard, nevertheless very interesting.

Why do so many people go crazy as soon as something has anything to do with Israel? I would much rather be in a German prison than be a cleaning lady in Saudi Arabia. Why don't any of these fanatics ever criticize the way millions of laborers are treated in Arab countries (especially Saudi Arabia)? Aren't they worthy of your voices? Or is it simply that the "villains" are not Jewish? This is pathetic...

[avizliran]

God Bless you. You are amazing. Kol Hakavod

Avi

[andreeaweed]

i love mountain biker too..great video

[talkoren9]

@eatingperson Ah yes, spreading ideas which have absolutely no relation to this movie, nor to reality, based on complete ignorance. Right, that's profound beauty.

[spacefor1]

It is wonderful to see that there are optimistic people like this man who believes he can turn the desert into a beautiful garden, very much like the rest of his people who have done that for their ancestral homeland after they had returned. They, for centuries, had their land occupied and abused by the Romans and than the Arabs. This man is a perfect example of a human being who has a truly good soul. There is a lesson to be learnt here by all the belligerent and hopeless creatures.

[RM1990123]

"we explore ruins of Palestinian villages and we discuss how they became ruins"

What is that supposed to mean?!

[RM1990123]

"we explore ruins of Palestinian villages and we discuss how they became ruins"

What is that supposed to mean?!

[bentothetenthpower]

The land in that part of the world has been annexed over and over again by force. The Israeli's are simply the latest in a long line of thieving murderers. One is forced to wonder if the whole place is cursed. I think the best thing would be to move everybody, and all their governments off of this doomed strip of land, and call a moratorium on settling it for like 500 years.

[jingo350]

All this emotional appeal to mask the fact that this land he's so "attached" to is the one emptied just a few years ago by massacring millions of Palestinians out of their homeland. I'm not deceived, I see a criminal in this guy