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Israel-Palestine: meeting with women united for peace

2024-02-21T11:42:58.627Z

Highlights: Madame Figaro meets Arab and Jewish activists. Refusing to give in to despair, they work towards rapprochement. They are Jewish, Arab, born in the United States, in East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem, but seem united like the fingers of the same hand. More than three months after October 7, the date of the massacre organized by Hamas in southern Israel, these five activists continue to travel the planet and carry out local work. “Unfortunately, I no longer believe in the two-state solution; at least not immediately,” says Karen Brunwasser.


While Israel is waging an all-out war in Gaza, following the October 7 massacre, Madame Figaro went to meet Arab and Jewish activists. Refusing to give in to despair, they work towards rapprochement.


Their names are Karen, Nivine, Tamar, Riman and Rebecca.

They are Jewish, Arab, born in the United States, in East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem, but seem united like the fingers of the same hand.

More than three months after October 7, the date of the massacre organized by Hamas in southern Israel, these five activists, financially supported by the Israeli government and philanthropists, continue to travel the planet and carry out local work. all the more valuable as world public opinion is once again torn apart on the Palestinian question.

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“Unfortunately, I no longer believe in the two-state solution;

at least not immediately,” says Karen Brunwasser, who can be found in Jerusalem where she created the NGO Mekudeshet, the Jerusalem Season of Culture (JSOC) art and music festival, and Feel Beit , a cultural center located on the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem.

“There are other models to be invented, a confederation, perhaps?”

At Feel Beit…

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Source: lefigaro

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