Recordings are provided directly below to listen to our conference on Palestine Israel Dialogue: Moving Towards Understanding. The interaction was a profound experience.
Panel https://archive.org/details/PalestineIsraelDialoguePanel
Questions and Comments https://archive.org/details/PalestineIsraelDialogueQuestionsComments
Compassionate Listening Intro https://archive.org/details/CarolHwoschinskyIntroToCompassionateListening
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Resources with links to videos and readings that were provided to us during preparation for the event:
Rick Steves video (57 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1unr6eNpQ
“100 Years of Conflict Between Israel and Palestine.” Radio interview on The Takeaway
Ian Black, the author of the new book “Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017.” Aired November 2, 2017 (8 mn)
http://www.wnyc.org/story/100-years-balfour-leaves-israel-and-palestine-odds/
“It Won’t Stop Until we Talk” video by The Parent Circle. you tube 10:32 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMNg6NQSlLo
The Compassionate Listening Project began working in Israel and Palestine in 1990. Video of Israeli and Palestinian Peace leaders who participated in Compassionate Listening in 2011. https://vimeo.com/34998082
“Borders Seminar Video” by Seed of Peace, October 1, 2017. Video Israeli and Palestinian young people discuss internal borders, as well as external borders, checkpoints and treaty lines. (3:13 min)
https://www.seedsofpeace.org/bordersvideo/
“Arab Aramin & Yigal Elhanan” youth for peace video (10:16 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJllnXxS41M
History
History of the area by Aljazeera World (1 hr)
Israeli 1948 victory vs Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
Hundred year anniversary of Balfour Agreement that started the whole thing.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/100-years-balfour-leaves-israel-and-palestine-odds/
West Bank
“Encircled” El-Aquaba Town in the West Bank that has been impacted by occupation.
https://vimeo.com/131341610 (25 min)
Update on Al-Aquaba Village in Palestine’s West Bank, Area C (5:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSd1sDORidg
Jewish Settlements in the West Bank- article from Jewish Virtual Library
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/facts-about-jewish-settlements-in-the-west-bank
Settlements are not the reason there is not Peace between Israel and Palestine By Alan Gershowicz for Prager University. (4:32)
Why does Israel build settlements in Palestine – blog from Politics Stack Exchange
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/1838/why-does-israel-build-settlements-in-palestine
Youth Peace Efforts
Youth conference in 2014-Youth Peace Initiative
http://youthpeaceinitiative.net/about-us/founding/
YaLa Youth Leadership hold online conference 10-15-17
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.591682
Kids for Peace
Kids for Peace Camp outside of Seattle
http://www.k4p.org/2017/07/kids4peace-visit-to-camp-solomon-schechter/
Seeds of Peace
a leadership development organization committed to transforming legacies of conflict into courage to lead change. Summer camp for kids from Middle East and South Asia
“Borders Seminar Video” by Seed of Peace, October 1, 2017. Israeli and Palestinian young people discuss internal borders, as well as external borders, checkpoints and treaty lines.
https://www.seedsofpeace.org/bordersvideo/
Citizen Peace Efforts
The Parents Circle
http://www.theparentscircle.com/
“It Won’t Stop Until we Talk” video by The Parents Circle. 10:32 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMNg6NQSlLo
“Arab Aramin & Yigal Elhanan” youth for peace (10:16 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJllnXxS41M
2 min cartoon by YaLa Youth Leadershp calling middle East Youth to action for Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-GLrjlb30
“Rays of Hope in Gaza: 13 Israeli and Palestinian Groups Building Peace.” Yes! Magazine article:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/13-peacebuilders-in-gaza
Rabbis protecting Palestinian olive trees
Israeli-Palestinian Women’s Peace March shows how complex the situation is.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-palestinian-womens-peace-march-exposes-palestinian-divides/
Two takes on the same event:
Sheikh Jarrah Israeli settlers evicting Palestinians and moving into their homes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUTK7tf5pMkMR4wgWdENTddg&time_continue=1&v=kJlrJkxFQbE
Article about Jewsih perspective of one of the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2017/9/11/cheering-for-illegal-settlers-as-long-as-theyre-not-jews#.WePxUTtrwdU=
Palestinian Perspective
‘We teach life, sir’ (Gaza) video of spoken word activist, Rafeef Ziadah -, London, 11/13/11 (4:38) What it feels like to be in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM&t=60s
“Normalize This” video by Remi Kanazi If Americans try to act as if both sides are equal, we are ignoring the facts. (3.25 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGNfKabwfQ
This Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human rights Association provides documentation of Israeli abuses and what legal interventions are possible within Israel’s military occupation and military law in the West Bank.
Israeli perspective
The Middle East Problem (5:39)
Why Isn’t there a Palestine Nation? Prager University. (5:34)
Terror tunnels (1:51 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO5-EhfNPMI
Terror attacks in Israel (1:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-amGO4a204
Israeli Army warns civilians in Gaza of imminent attack, but Palestinian leadership tells people to stay.
Quantifying the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’s Importance to Middle East Turmoil http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=3610
Israel treatment of Arabs in Israel
This Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights focuses on the comprehensive discrimination against non-Jewish citizens of Israel, including a list of 65 Israeli laws that deny equal rights to Arabs in virtually every area of life. https://www.adalah.org/en
“Looking at Both Sides” Is there apartheid in Israel? Portland State University Vanguard.4/3/09
http://psuvanguard.com/looking-at-both-sides-waddah-sofan/
This Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights focuses on the comprehensive discrimination against non-Jewish citizens of Israel, including a list of 65 Israeli laws that deny equal rights to Arabs in virtually every area of life. https://www.adalah.org/en
Human Rights (Pro Palestinian)
This Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human rights Association provides documentation of Israeli abuses and what legal interventions are possible within Israel’s suffocating military occupation and military law in the West Bank. http://www.addameer.org/
BDS: Boycott Disinvestment Sanctions (against Israel)
Wikipedia pros and cons for BDS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions
BDS: The Global Campaign to Delegitimize Israel
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/bds-the-global-campaign-to-delegitimize-israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNttZV4G_0&feature=youtu.be by Prager University. Israeli is not an apartheid state. Speaker is Olga, from South Africa, whose parents lived under apartheid.
Amy Goodman/ John Waters of Pink Floyd in support of BDS
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/14/pink_floyd_founder_roger_waters_bds
Palestine-Israel Dialogue Activities
Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry” From Electornic Intifada 2010 , by aPalestinian student condemns programs such as Seeds Of Peace as weakening BDS movement.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/can-we-talk-middle-east-peace-industry/8402
Creativity for Peace or Pacification? Op Ed Eugene Weekly, by Jack Dresser, 2013
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20131212/guest-viewpoint/creativity-peace-or-pacification
Education of children to hate
“Born to Hate Jews Prager University. Pakistani Man learns that Jews aren’t evil. (4:44)
Palestine in Israeli School Books: university professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan (28min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKPRC-_oSg&t=11s
Killing of children
Israeli children victims of Palestinian terror [131]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6EzAdkomw
Remember these (Palestinian) Children [1656]
http://www.rememberthesechildren.org/
Dr. Jack Dresser’s organization
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Palestine Israel Dialogue: Moving towards Understanding recordings
Panel: https://archive.org/details/PalestineIsraelDialoguePanel
Audience questions and comments: https://archive.org/details/PalestineIsraelDialogueQuestionsComments
Compassionate Listening Intro https://archive.org/details/CarolHwoschinskyIntroToCompassionateListening