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The Snakes, Ladders and Peace Game Between Palestine and Israel

Author: Ahmed Jenin, Palestine
Published: July 28, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics
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As we know, the Snakes and Ladders is a game that contains numbered plates with numbered squares, snakes and ladders, as well as two small plastic pieces with different colors in order to distinguish each player; besides, there is a cube with numbers from 1 to 6 in its sides, a player throws this cube […]

A Jew in a Foreign Land

Author: Yael Mizrahi, Israel
Published: July 15, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Democracy, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine
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Tags: israel, jews, USA, womenforpeace, YaelMizrahi, yalayoungleaders

Having been raised as a religious Jew in the United States, my support for Israel is a given. After having lived in Israel for six years, my understanding of Israel’s position has surely undergone a fundamental transition, in part due to the basic process of maturation, as well as a few eye-opening experiences. I would […]

Friday’s Evening

Author: Hamze Awawde, Palestine
Published: July 4, 2013
Categories: in Art, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Life Style, Palestine
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The tragic reality in the Middle East is no longer dominating our hearts. At least not in these hours, not on Friday evenings. Singers in the Arab Idols program on MBC channel are creating a different reality for us. They are passing on a happiness which allows us to escape the Middle East – at […]

Our Differences Cannot Surpass Our Similarities

Author: Rafaela Barkay, Brazil & Naima Nas, Egypt
Published: June 24, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Egypt, English, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Politics, Tolerance
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Tags: brazil, coexistence, egypt, NaimaNas, RafaelaBarkay, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

The only Arabs I knew were those of Jewish origin, but these were not so Arabs. The others, I should fear. The Lebanese were Arabs, the Palestinians, the Moroccans and the Iranians were Arabs too. Anyone who lived in the Middle East and was not Jewish, was an Arab, except a few Christians, who […]

Peace-building & Social Media: Virtual or Real Changes?

Author: Rafaela Barkai, Brazil
Published: June 17, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Democracy, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Politics
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Tags: brazil, hope, peacebuilding, RafaelaBarkay, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

Last November, I had to write a paper for my Master’s in Jewish culture, about any aspect of Israeli society. The war operation Amud Anan (or Pillar of Cloud) was taking place in Gaza, and I was getting involved in a Facebook group called “Turning a New Page for Peace”, linked to a community with the same […]

Playing Hide & Seek

Author: Henriette Chacar, Israel
Published: June 14, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Tags: HenrietteChacar, israel, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

Upon asking people what superpower they would most like to possess, one of the most popular answers is the ability to become invisible. In Israel, 20.7% of the population is invisible; we are the Israeli-Palestinians: Israeli citizens of Palestinian descent, living within the 1967 borders. In that case, invisibility is not what makes us omnipotent, […]

One Cannot Start Speaking About the Middle East…

Author: Tom Dolev, Israel
Published: May 30, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Tolerance
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Tags: israel, IsraelPalestine, peace, TomDolev, yalayoungleaders

One cannot start speaking about the Middle East, and even more so about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, without dissatisfying various groups with various opinions and various claims on the truth, on justice and on suffering, often contradicting. This is all the more true if this specific one is a Jew from Israel, who might even seem […]

A Leftist Under Fire

Author: Nufar Levy, Israel
Published: May 25, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics
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Tags: hope, israel, NufarLevy, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

On Wednesday November 14th afternoon, while I was studying in the library of Ben-Gurion University in the city of Be’er-Sheva, it all started. The news quickly spread through the study lounge- “the IDF killed the chief of staff of Hamas in Gaza, we’re gonna get it hard this time”. People began to leave the building. The […]

Northern Ireland: A Model for Conflict Mangement in the Middle East?

Author: Lea Ledwon, Germany
Published: May 2, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, Tolerance
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Tags: ConflictResolution, germany, Ireland, LeaLedwon, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

You might wonder why I, a German living in Israel, have the urge to talk about Ireland. Well, first of all because I spent a wonderful year there after school working with special needs people and at the same time meeting an Israeli who initiated me studying in Herzliya instead of Berlin. This is basically […]

Being a Preconceived Concept

Author: Sarah Perle, Israel
Published: April 29, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Education, English, Environment, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, Tolerance
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Tags: israel, SarahPerle, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

“I can’t be your friend anymore.” Those are the words that concluded a pretty brief – but passionate discussion – I had with a dear friend of mine a few years ago. Back then, I thought that this would be the last discussion we would ever have! Fortunately we’ve had many more. I was a […]

Peace ? YES We Can!

Author: Roya Mobasheri, Iran
Published: March 29, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Iran
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Tags: Iran, peace, RoyaMobasheri, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

On March 21th, President Obama gave an amazing speech in Jerusalem. I would love to thank him for his open and encouraging words. His main message to the young people was that peace is possible. “Therefore we – the young generation – should put pressure on our governments in the search of peaceful solutions, as […]

Our Difficulties … Our Hopes

Author: Thaer Abdallah, Palestine
Published: March 28, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Democracy, English, Palestine, Politics
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Tags: hope, israel, palestine, ThaerAbdallah, yalayoungleaders

Seeing how the region is boiling with violence and violation of freedom on a daily basis, we, the youth of the region, must also boil and not stand silent. We must play a big and effective role in this game – reaching freedom and equality comes through conscious, cultured and organized youth, who embody the […]

A Renewed Sense of Potency

Author: Nimrod Ben Ze'ev, Israel
Published: March 26, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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Tags: israel, NimrodBenZeev, peace, yalayoungleaders

President Obama did yesterday in Jerusalem what he does best — he stirred up a vital commotion of hope and a sense of agency, which many of us Israelis have been lacking, certainly when it comes to what is termed here as “politics” – war and peace. He energized the room with his presence […]

Dear President Obama

Author: Mohamed Abubaker, Sudan
Published: March 26, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Politics, Sudan
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Tags: MohamedSalihAbubakr, Obama, peace, sudan, yalayoungleaders

Dear Mr. President, First of all, welcome back to the region. I hope you’ll enjoy your short stay here. And I hope you will notice that nothing has changed around here since your last visit – perhaps the weather is a bit better now. People told me to lower my expectations about your last visit. […]

YaLa Poetry | A Letter to the President Obama: Followed by a Poem

Author: Rahma Shgaier, Tunisia
Published: March 25, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Politics, Tunisia, YaLa Poetry
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Tags: Obama, Rahma Sghaier, tunisia, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

Dear Mr. President, Welcome to our region. I hope that your stay will be fruitful this time. I know that your visit is so expected. Many people have high hopes. Many people believe that peace in the region is possible, that change is possible. Right, It’s easy to say:“yes, we can” but do we really […]

We Deserve to See the Sun

Author: Hanane Harrath, Morocco
Published: March 22, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Morocco, Politics
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Tags: HananeHarrath, morocco, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

Here we are. Standing up throughout the Middle East. Standing up in lands buried by endless wars or, harmful consequences of dictatorships. Fighting every single day to contain our legitimate anger. Yes, we are angry and we are right to be. We are angry because we carry a burden we don’t want and we don’t […]

Make Your Visit Hopeful Mr. President

Author: Hamze Awawde, Palestine
Published: March 21, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics
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Tags: HamzeAwawde, israel, Obama, palestine, peace, yalayoungleaders

On the event of your visit this week to Israel and the Palestinian territories, I welcome you warmly and wish you success, as the world’s freest black man and leader in the world and in history. Naturally your visit gives lots of hope to the citizens of the whole Middle East and especially to Palestinians […]

My Country is Burning

Author: Ella Doron, Israel
Published: March 19, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, Development, English, Environment, Israel
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Tags: EllaDoron, israel, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

“My Country’s Burning “ is a prayer, for the tears we’ve shed, injustice we witness and the challenges we face these days as a society and as humanity as we stand on the threshold of a great shift, change that is coming and happening everyday around the world. I wrote this song during a tragic […]

E-PEACE

Author: Rahma Sghaier, Tunisia
Published: March 15, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Tunisia
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Tags: e_peace, Rahma Sghaier, tunisia, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him” Martin Luther King, Jr. This is one of the most inspiring quotes I’ve ever read in my life. I believe that hate is the primary act of […]

What Does It Take to be a Peace Seeker?

Author: Nufar Levy, Israel
Published: March 7, 2013
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Israel
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Tags: israel, NufarLevy, peace, womenforpeace, yalayoungleaders

What Does It Take to be a Peace Seeker? It takes imagination and creativity. A peace seeker cannot look at reality and derive a vision of a peaceful future from it. In most cases, there’s nothing in his immediate reality that looks even close to a peaceful future. So when depicting a vision of peace, […]

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