This isn’t a Rwanda post, but I can’t help myself. Two guys, one from Israel, the other from Gaza, met at a youth dialogue camp, and as the violence there has gotten nasty again, have started blogging about…well, everything, but generically, peace. It’s a kind of joint diary that covers their own feelings, the things they think the media locally and internationally are missing, and their ideas for the future…
Somehow, I find this, from their blog , the most compelling thing I’ve read about the situation:
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– Give us a break –
We, citizens of Gaza, Sderot and people all over the world desperately call you, our leaders and decision makers, to completely cease fire immediately. Both sides are in a dead lock and One Month will give all parties an opportunity to rethink their policy and to find new paths out of this senseless and hopeless reality.
All we ask for is One Month
There’s been rumblings at conferences and such about the power of technology to bring about peace or stave off violence (not, alas, the same thing), and mostly I’m skeptical, but this is a great example which I would be happy to think of as the rule rather than the exception…
Here’s the article I found them in.
And here, again, the blog.
