Jewish, Muslim students work together for peace?

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Aside from the creation of the accords, the project also has plans for a number of community outreach projects for next year, including bringing together children from local mosques and synagogues and possibly bringing Jewish and Muslim comedians to campus, said Sarah Dehaybi, a pre-physiology junior and president of the MSA.

"We want to focus more on the education aspect and hopefully from there we can initiate everything else we can do," Dehaybi said. "There's a lot of sensitive information involved, and you can't present that first."

While getting to know one another, the group has been studying the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from a number of different angles. One Muslim and one Jewish student pair off to write each section of the accords, including security issues, the handling of refugees and access to holy places, Alyeshmerni said.
"I really didn't know anything about the conflict before working with the project," said Jennifer Knutson, a science education

junior and a member of the MSA, although she identifies herself as Christian. "I've learned a lot about it, and I've also learned that there are people who are willing to put an end to it."

The group is proud to be combining Jewish and Muslim ideas to solve these problems, Dehaybi said, but understands that the two groups working together is not the most popular idea on either side of the debate.

"We understand that there are a lot of people who are not into coming (to our meetings)," Dehaybi said. "But if we push this in the right direction, I think it will become popular on both sides."

Alyeshmerni, who will be leaving next year to spend time in Israel, said she hopes the project will continue to attract students and grow into a partnership that will serve as an example to communities everywhere that the two factions can work side-by-side towards a peaceful solution.
"This has the potential to be so big," Alyeshmerni said.

"There are not many university groups in the country that are doing this kind of stuff."

But even if the document is never finalized, Alyeshmerni said she is glad the project could connect even a few Jews and Muslims in a meaningful way.

"I've learned a lot about both sides and have been able to put a face on both sides," Dehaybi said. "I think it's good for me as a Muslim to have people that I consider friends who are Jewish."

http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2006/04/26/News/Jewish.Muslim.Students.Work.Together.For.Peace-1877904.shtml

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Why Whoo! is it wrong to call for peace.
I am a Muslim Palestinian and I think my parents would refuse at the begining but if I explain to them that this would help promote peace they MAY accept.
It is sad that we want peace and our parents work as barriers. Yesterday I was discussing Judaism with my parents. My father was so understanding and he said many good things about Judaism but my mother got angry and said that I should not love the Jews because they have been hurting us since 1948.
I really want peace with the Israelis and the jews in general but living with an anti-semetic family plays a role too.
Peace to everybody

Answer 1

getting the young to comunicate is definately a good way to implant notions into heads. but it must be stregnthened with good will. the Jews need to give back what doesnt belong to them. as long as they deny Palastinians their right to worship in the holiest of holy places there will be no peace. Israel knows that and still doesnt do the right thing. this is why the western world finds it hard to take all the outher token efforts seriously. having said! that i do understand that there allways seems to be some no brain palastinian idiot that screws it up. but!! if its done enough perhaps even they will realise that they are shooting themselves in the foot. both sides need to silence their extremests before any real progress can be made.

Answer 2

WOW Mimi thats great thanks for letting me know, my guess is the only reason it doesn't work in Israel as abroad is because both of the two sides have extremist that don't want to live in peace in the first place,because then they'll have to give up something and "Kids" don't like making compromises.
My opinion is every side has to give up a bit and I believe when there will be peace and people will learn to live together better then they will have better lives then the way things are today.
I know Israel has given up a lot the last year really a lot, don't underestimate all Israel has given! and still is and I know that so have the fatah made big and great and important moves torwards peace which I hope are genuine and we can all live happier safer lives and I just hope Hizballah and Hamas won't ruin it all.

Answer 3

Your questions isn't possibly sparkling unquestionably. I study it like 4 situations and that i'm no longer seeing your factor precisely. Are all of us "above reproach"? for sure no longer. I disagree with quite a few of our little communities stances on quite a few issues. It does not recommend i do no longer admire them, thier know-how or thier opinion nevertheless. It does not recommend i'm going to stand for blatent lack of know-how of different individuals's faith. i think of this is disgusting the way *some* (and that i say some) are so completely desperate to unfold tutorial and theological falsehood approximately no longer purely *my* faith yet others, espeically Catholicism (which i'm additionally an ardent defender of) and Judiasm. I prepare niether, yet I even have studied them (i'm an ex-Catholic on that front) and carry admire for some if no longer maximum of thier tenants whether i do no longer "have faith". some absolutely everyone seems to be purely extremely innocently ignorant (alongside with Judiasm is Christianity without Jesus which I additionally theory until eventually a modern-day philosophy type which brought about me to truly *learn* a number of it) and a few of it purely blatent lies, alongside with I and my fellow pagans are evil and of the devil. Its malicous and disgusting. If being area of the JPA cuts down on that, here on the least, that I even have performed what i've got faith in.

Answer 4

Thanks so much for posting this Mimi.

It cheers me up greatly to read of projects such as this.

It only needs a few of us who really, truly want peace, for progress to begin. And it sounds like your father is a great and open minded person. I too find that when I discuss the topic with Israeli friends, while the majority are keen to move forward, there are always one or two who can't because they focus on the acts of Islamic terrorism that Israel has been suffering for so long - I have not given up trying to convince them that peace is possible though!

So with people like you on your 'side' and me on my 'side' hopefully we will reach peace in the end!!

Salam, and shalom

Answer 5

Dear,

It's most difficult for me to answer your question. I can only give you the storry on Moses. Moses a.s.died at the age of 120 years and being denied by his followers. They said Moses kill Harun which Allah want to take Harun life and die on the hill which Moses brought Harun and straigth away taken by God to internity. Moses followers does not belief. After Moses prayed to God, God show to his followers that Haron's lying dead in a beatiful bed in a beatiful house by Allah and let them see Harun's remain's lying in bed in the beatiful house hanging in the air and then later taken back by God to Internity to prove to the followers that Moses didn't kill Haron. It's God that want Haron death. Moses had have save his followers from the Pharaoh and his Army and led them by hiting the sea with his cane and across the Sea Reeds from Egypt to Senai, and hit again the Sea with his cane. Pharaoh's Army drowned in the Sea. The followers still built a calve and worships while Moses on the Hill Tursinar receiving the Ten Commandments from Allah. The followers are denied by ALLAH. You can be with Christians, Marjusi and others but not with Moses followers. Just being together for studying and and working together on the project for peace and nothing More. There are too many things given by God to Moses followers even eating from salwa and yet they denied God and does not worship God through the Ten Commandment. If God denied them, we as the creation of God must obey God. If they can denied their own prophets Moses, who and what are we?. The followers said to Moses, ask from your God. e, the Sapi (animal) what kind, what size etc. etc..no ending asking Moses to ask from Moses's God, not their God. Even if Moses follower is hiding behind a tree, if you can hear and understand the language of the tree, the tree is telling that a follower is hinding behind her. Even to that extend, a tree does not like it. I can't give you any 'advice'. You are an adult and matured. See to my note as references. I have 'no' comments at all for your projects on "peace".

Answer 6

it would be nice to show the world it could be done!GodBless You!

Answer 7

allahu akbar!

Answer 8

sounds great

Answer 9

Ah, the naivete, lol.
For some ignorance truly is bliss.

Answer 10

Ha! I highly doubt that that's gonna work out any good! Jewish parents wouldn't let their children do that! My parents never would!