Just Vision

If you want to have real dialogue and real peace, it is very important to be confident enough to stand there and say, I am Jewish, I am Israeli, and you are Muslim or you are Christian or Orthodox or Catholic, Armenian, or Palestinian. ...

The origin of all success is the freedom of human beings. If any person can feel freedom from occupation, from fear, that is the most important success. Therefore, collective freedom starts with individual freedom.

If you are an architect you should know how to use architecture to create change. If you come from the field of communications and media, you should know how to use your profession as a tool for change. The same is true for all the other professions.

I believe in the concept of a "critical mass." Every person actively participating will at some point become part of a critical mass, which will then take hold. I can't claim that by saving any one house I've greatly contributed to advancing peace. I do believe that our work, if joined by scores of ...

At last I gave in, not because I wanted to listen but because I became curious. If they wanted to talk, so be it. I didn’t have to understand or feel their pain; I would just listen if they wanted to talk. When they started talking, I realized that they were saying the same things I say only from a ...

I think this conflict is mostly about myths and symbols, theirs and ours, and less about what is happening on the ground.... From what I have read and researched, if you were to separate these issues from the symbolic and cultural framework they are wrapped in, it would be possible to resolve them. ...

After industry pros flew back home from the Toronto International Film Festival -- heads throbbing from too many drinks, not enough sleep and the lackluster marketplace, where few films were bought and ...

Peace in the political context here means two states, it means fair and just minority-majority relationships, it means the other side of a long process of acknowledging an injustice that took place, and going through a process that allows everyone to be able to let go of the past without feeling the...

Use words instead of swords; we shouldn’t carry our swords and cut off each other's heads. We can get what we want by using proper words and a good approach... this is how the world works. You can either beat me up and get what you want, or you can talk to me and get what you want, and more.

"We are publishing today the joint communiqué of Casa Sefarad-Israel and Casa Arabe in which they advance the candidacy of The Parents Circle- Families Forum to the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize of the Concorde. ...

I didn't know what to do with the pain and there wasn't an outlet for the grief. The Forum is a means of helping yourself in addition to being a means of resistance. It is a different kind of revolution for my people. This is how I view it. You are eventually drawn into this and begin to believe in ...

Instead of channeling it into revenge, the people in our group have chosen another direction for their pain. The pain breaks down barriers very quickly between Palestinians and Israelis in the group. There's a sense of trust. It's not hummus and hugs-- it's much deeper than that; it's acknowledgemen...