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Tight Rope Walking Along the Border, by Manuela Rota, Spain

Author: Manuela Rota
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I’m in a bus, on a day trip with my University along the border of the Gaza Strip. I am excited but I can’t really tell why, since I know there will not be much to see around; hopefully there’s not much to see. Netiv Ha’asara is one of our stops. It is a moshav (cooperative agrarian […]
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Fake Lens Glasses by Ido Cohen, Israel

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Ten years ago, my life changed. Bus number 37 exploded in Haifa, Israel. Three kids from my school died. If it wasn’t for a school trip that was randomly planned that day, I would have been on that bus. Bus number 37 is the bus I use to take home. I was leaving my school […]
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The Middle Eastern Youth Joins Forces to Back Peace By Thaer Abdallah and Yael Mizrahi

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“Youth all over the Middle East have expressed their demand to have a better life for everybody, there are still demonstrations and uprisings in many places in the middle east, however, the same youth have expressed their demands differently, they choose education and understanding, in order to be ready for the change they are aiming […]
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An Open Letter to My Fellow Friends for Peace by Henriette Chacar, Israel

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A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict exists. It’s there – It’s been there for quite a long time now. It’s been introduced in several versions, at different points in time, by alternating figures. But the outline is known: Two states, with Jerusalem as the capital; 67 borders with possible land swaps; and no return of […]
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Where are We Going? By Thaer Abdallah, Palestine

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I remember one day in 2010 when I opened Google image and typed the word Syria… It showed me images of nature scenes and springs and the wheels of Homs. Thirty months were enough to change the scene completely, if you were to search ‘Syria’ in Google now, you will find images of destruction, and bodies […]
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The Snakes, Ladders and Peace Game Between Palestine and Israel

Author: Ahmed Jenin, Palestine
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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 […]
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Loving Home

Author: Hamze Awawde, Palestine
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Loving Home Love is our Land After leaving my house for 10 months to seek immigration in Germany, now I passed the border with Jordan to come back home to Palestine. I never expected to be so lucky with the people around me, to find a cousin waiting for me with his car to take […]
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Friday’s Evening

Author: Hamze Awawde, 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 […]
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One Cannot Start Speaking About the Middle East…

Author: Tom Dolev, Israel
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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 […]
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