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Jewish and Palestinian Teens Reach for Understanding One More Time
A youth group brings together neighbors who know nothing about the other’s culture in hopes of changing future politics.
What if your neighbor has never seen the ocean?
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“When your soldiers shoot us at checkpoints,” a Palestinian teenager asked a group of Israelis his age, “is it because they are genuinely afraid, or is killing us more like a sport for them?”
“Aren’t you ashamed,” an Israel teen later asked of the Palestinians, “to be part of a culture that glorifies terror and murder?”