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July 18, 2008
Understanding the conflict
Non-violent resistance?
3. The Palestinian Bar-Mitzvah
Bassam Aramin , 18 July 2008
Bassam Aramin, co-founder of Combatants for Peace, gives a moving account of the ill-treatment and humiliation of his 14-year old son, Arab, on returning home with friends after a day on the beach at Tiberias - and of the growing maturity of Arab’s responses:
'Then he said something even more surprising. “I want you to take me with you when you go to one of your lectures in Israel so I can tell the Israelis about the practices of their soldiers on that night.” I asked him if he was serious—Arab has always questioned my willingness to talk with the other side and sit down with Israelis in forums like those Combatants for Peace provides. But he insisted, saying, “They have to know what happened so the parents of those soldiers can forbid their children to act that way towards women and children again.”'
2. An open letter to the Minister of Defense, Mr. Ehud Barak
from Bassam Aramin, co-founder of the movement “Combatants for Peace”
15 May 2008
1. Ma'ariv, Wednesday March 19 2008 - two articles
Live Gunfire against Demonstrators at Fence (p.6) by Amir Ben-David
Apartheid (p. 7) by Yonatan Pollack
