If we really care for these people’s lives, we must encourage both sides to learn from past mistakes and move on. Taking sides and living in the past will never achieve anything. We recently met Palestinian and Jewish parents who had lost children in the conflict.
One complained the West had exported the conflict.
She said, “If you cannot help bring these people together please stay out of it and do not take sides, because you are making it worse.”
We mentioned earlier, a window of opportunity that exists with young Palestinian and Israeli adults.
To take advantage of this, we are planning reconciliation peace projects in Europe, starting in Britain, and have begun asking British politicians and leaders to support and facilitate them.
Britain was instrumental in creating much of the mess that now exists, and therefore we believe has a moral duty to make amends for the past.
If you feel inspired to stand with us, support us and be involved, please do contact us at: [email protected]
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.”
Matthew 5:9.
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The West donates billions to these people yet they have so little to show for it. The Palestinian people want rights, democracy and equality with the world yet fail to understand that such rights carry great responsibility and entail hard work to achieve.
One Palestinian woman complained about how Israel has all the “green land.”
When it was explained they had spent over 60 years planting trees and developing their agriculture she was silenced.
West Bank Palestinians experience water shortages complaining their water is stolen by Israel, yet few know their leadership has never drilled the forty wells in the eastern aquifer mandated in the Oslo Accords!
Gazans suffer without water and sanitation yet do not know their governing authority has blocked the West from building them a state-of-the-art desalination plant that would supply the entire territory.
They also suffer electricity shortages from their expensive diesel powered generators, unaware the Palestinian Authority buys oil from Israel at around NIS 3 per litre but charges Gaza NIS 9 – making it so expensive!
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