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Rebuilding Trust in the Middle East |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEACE PERSPECTIVE |
| Author: Alon Ben-Meir |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 2,535 Words, 16,396 Characters |
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While the carnage in Israel and the occupied territories continued (during the first week of September, twin suicide bombings and the inevitable retaliations by Israel claimed the lives of nearly forty Israelis and Palestinians), in Denver a conference of academics tried to sort out ways to rebuild trust between Israelis and Palestinians.
The participants agreed that trust between the two parties had virtually evaporated since the second intifada began at the end of September 2000, and rebuilding it is essential to any progress. After two days of deliberations, it became clear that though the task is daunting and time is running out, something must be done to end this tragic, all-devouring conflict.
The conference was sponsored by the Institute of the Study of Israel in the Middle Ea...
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...losing remarks at the end of the two-day discussions. He challenged the group not to allow complacency to set in and never to succumb to despair at what may appear to be impossible. Israeli and Palestinians, he insisted, are destined to coexist in peace and in harmony, and it is up to us, to people like ourselves, and others to make that dream possible.
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