{"id":6875,"date":"2017-08-05T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T09:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:51:37","slug":"middle-eastern-salad-rivi-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/middle-eastern-salad-rivi-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Eastern Salad \/ Rivi Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">On July 15, we held the first meeting of Middle Eastern Salad \u2013 13 women from the team for contact with Palestinian women, including our two Palestinian partners, from Shu\u2019afat and Beit Jala, and 14 Palestinian women from the area of Bethlehem.\u00a0 To our surprise, and delight, the Palestinian women brought their children. Most of the women from the Bethlehem area do not speak English.\u00a0 Together with Orna Ashkenazi, who served as the facilitator of the meeting, Susan Abed ElKadar served as a facilitator and translator.\u00a0 For most of the Palestinian women, with the notable exception of Samia, who organized the meeting, this was their, and their childrens\u2019, first encounter with Israelis.\u00a0 We went around the group and everyone introduced herself, we watched a video clip on the Mothers\u2019 Prayer, we shared personal stories of incidents in which we had displayed courage.\u00a0 Samia facilitated meditation (she is a yoga teacher), we drew squares (Pieces for Peace) depicting peace and we eat a light supper together.\u00a0 In the individual pairings, painful stories were shared that opened the heart (and made the tears flow).\u00a0 The team from the <strong>Women Wage Peace <\/strong>Movement was diverse, both in terms of social sectors and political outlook.\u00a0 For those who were experiencing their first encounter with Palestinians and heard stories from the other side for the first time, it was an experience that opened their hearts and touched them deeply, which stayed with them even after the encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6877 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20170729-WA0024-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A few of the more powerful moments:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">It was apparent that the oldest woman in the Palestinian group was extremely uncomfortable being with us \u2026 she avoided eye contact, her expression was angry and closed.\u00a0 When the clip of the Mothers\u2019 Prayer began, she averted her gaze from the screen.\u00a0 The moment that the song began in Arabic, she looked at the screen \u2026 another glance \u2026 and another \u2026 until she watched the clip to the end.\u00a0 We all noticed the change that came over her afterwards.\u00a0 One small step, but still \u2013 a step.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">At the end, four of us sat together with Samia to plan the next encounter.\u00a0 Samia would like to hold monthly meetings.\u00a0 Three grade school boys who had been running around until then sat and listened to the women planning the meeting with wide-opened eyes, in total silence, following every word.\u00a0 I was astonished and felt that these children are seeing their mothers meeting with Israeli women, and that other than us, their only encounter with Israelis is with the soldiers at the barrier.\u00a0 For me, these were seeds of peace within the next generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The plan is to increase the size of the group a bit each time and to encourage more women from the movement, outside of our team, to take part in these encounters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Translated from Hebrew by Amy Yourman<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Rivi Diamond is a coordinator of the team for contact with the Palestinian women, together with Orna Ashkenazi and Yael Treidel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15, we held the first meeting of Middle Eastern Salad \u2013 13 women from the team for contact with Palestinian women, including our two Palestinian partners, from Shu\u2019afat and Beit Jala, and 14 Palestinian women from the area of Bethlehem.\u00a0 To our surprise, and delight, the Palestinian women brought their children. 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