Entries Tagged as 'International Education Program'
March 1st, 2009 · Comments Off
By James F. Smith, Globe Staff
There could hardly be a less hopeful moment for peace between Israelis and Palestinians: Israeli forces invaded the Gaza Strip last month, and then Israeli voters marched firmly to the right in elections. Palestinians are more divided than ever, with the hard-line Hamas movement still firing rockets from Gaza […]
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April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off
Jennifer Lin
Speakers from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict spoke on Monday at UCLA to give their perspectives and offer hope for peace.
OneVoice, an international grassroots movement aimed at finding a resolution to the conflict, presented Malaka Samara of OneVoice Palestine and Shani Gershon of OneVoice Israel on their first stop of a weeklong […]
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March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
T.J. Hall
In the front of Room 2302 in Sangren Hall, two miniature flags stood beside each other on a table. Two more full size flags hung from the adjacent wall. And two young women sat side by side, different in nationality, but alike in their shared belief that one day Israel and Palestine […]
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March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
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March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
By Sean Steels
Daroub Yacoub, a young Palestinian woman, remembers the moment she realized she wanted to speak out for peace in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Not that she could forget coming home to find the street in front of her house lined with military tanks.
The Alumni wall in front of which she and Maya Epstein, […]
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February 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
by Stacey Palevsky The Jewish News Weekly
Arab and Jew sit side-by-side at the San Francisco Hillel house and explain how the humanity that unites the two women is stronger than the boundaries dividing them.
They feel so strongly about this that the pair spent the week of Feb. 11 in California talking about […]
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February 14th, 2008 · Comments Off
By Brian Andrew
Israeli Noga Ron and Palestinian Wafa Nazzal are unlikely partners in the movement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But their differences just might work to their advantage.
Youth leaders Noga Ron and Wafa Nazzal spoke last night on behalf of OneVoice, a citizen activism movement working in Israel and Palestine to […]
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January 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
BY FANNIE SUNSHINE
Adi Labadi was just 15 when he was shot in the leg while on a street in the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine.
Labadi, now 20, is well aware he could have made "bad" choices after he and a friend were caught in the crossfire of the […]
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January 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off
Waleed Hafeez
On Sunday, WLU played host to representatives from OneVoice New York, Israel and Palestine. The OneVoice movement is a youth-based initiative to bring peace and stability in the Middle East and end the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict.
The grassroots movement has transcended borders and has offices in New York, London, Ottawa, […]
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January 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off
THANA DHARMARAJAH
Adi Labadi was shot in his right leg in the middle of the street in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
Tel Aviv native Smadar Cohen’s commander was blown up in a bus that the Israeli woman often took home herself.
Labadi, a 20-year-old Palestinian, and Cohen, a 24-year-old Israeli, grew up in an environment […]
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