Reconciliation - Israel/Palestine

Oct 1995
When Rabin and Arafat signed the pact between Israel and the Palestinians in Washington, the Jews and Palestinians in Israel showed their anger.

Riots in Hebron disrupted daily life. But in the middle of this anger something beautiful happened. Two fathers, whose sons died fighting each other, met and planned to start a centre to promote tolerance and understanding between Palestinians and Israelis. Sheik Yassin Badr is a Palestinian whose son executed the Jewish soldier Nachshon Wachsman, son of Jehoeda Wachsman, during a hostage-tragedy which shocked Israel last year. Badr's son Abd el-Karim, a Hamas fighter, was killed by the Israeli army during the rescue attempt to free the hostage. The elder Badr and Wachsman's initiative offers hope for the future of the Israeli-Palestinian Pact even though - sadly - both Palestinians and Israelis condemned the two fathers. This feature includes Yassin Badr and Jehoeda Wachsman discussing the conflict

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[dianmnoer]

Peace in the middle east.

[RaananVolesPianist]

Almost all Jews came originally from the Middle East. DNA studies prove that.

[cliquegrl917]

My family was good friends with nachson.

[swim3330]

yeah go back. the "palestinians" should go back to Jordan or one of their 22 arab countries. there is only one Jewish country

[nanfad]

Go back??? Palestinians which includes Palestinian jews are the original and indigenous people of the Levant. How about having the European and Russian Israelis go back to their indigenous countries where they came from.

[swim3330]

or the palestinians can go back to one of their other 21 arab countries. Responsibility is upon the 21 arab countries to take in their brethren.

[Hellboysjd]

One state solution. then a joint school of fresh Teachers who never held any hatred or hold prejudiced ideas. Then let the Kids study together teach them love, compensate the immigrants but deport them with their acceptance of course. Let the refugees Return. Start a new building project to fix the density problem, trade water from tukrey for olive oil to solve water shortages, form a constitution to protect human rights.

Build the future and solve the Crisis, thats my plan.You like it?

[phoenixred999]

the sons did not die "fighting each other." One murdered the other in cold blood, and died when his brothers tried (in vain) to rescue him.