OneVoice executives met with the Palestinian Prime Minister the other week. While the meeting focused on many issues, Samer bolstered the importance of state building and civil society’s role in doing so successfully.
This article provides substantive and sufficiently detailed proof that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not intractable.
It is especially fitting that the following OneVoice music video aired repeatedly in Times Square, the capital of diversity and entertainment in NYC. Check out this great video by clicking on the photo below, to see the humorous message of peace and hope that thousands of New Yorkers got a chance to see:
Samer Makhlouf, director of OneVoice Palestine just shared a very hopeful bit of information with me, in the form of a survey. The survey, found on Maan Network asked the following:
The Palestinian society is capable of changing the Israeli political map through:
1. explaining the suffering under occupation to Israelis
2. non-violent resistance
3. intensifying meetings of Palestinians figures with Israeli media
Two good indicators here are that Palestinians acknowledge the importance of addressing Israeli society, and that more than 80% believe in non-violence as a mean to end the conflict.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, redacted by Adeena Schlussel
An amazing OpEd in Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper shows that OneVoice’s Imagine 2018 campaign is a bold and innovative one, and is quickly gaining popular attention. Prominent Israeli politicians have been receiving a mock ups of an Israeli newspaper from the future, thanking the politicians for attaining peace by 2018. Read more to see the extensive positive attention that Imagine 2018 has garnered already!
by Adeena Schlussel
This past week, twenty OneVoice Youth Leaders participated in the annual Nablus Marathon, along with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and approximately 5000 other participants. At the end of the marathon, the Youth Leaders, clad in OneVoice tee-shirts, had collected visions of 2018 from their huffing and puffing peers along the course.
The marathon itself is a concrete sign of nation building, and the Youth Leader’s participation, is a sign of the peaceful nation that will hopefully continue to be built.
by Adeena Schlussel, spotted by Daniel Lubetzky
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This TIME article about Palestinians, contained by the security wall is sad and poignant. This article depicts that many Israelis and Palestinians simply do not understand each other, because they do not get to know each other, and just reaffirms the vital need for OneVoice’s Imagine 2018 Campaign.
This article displays a silver lining in the midst of a tragedy: Palestinian firefighters participated in the humanitarian effort to extinguish the fires in the Carmel region of Israel. (The firefighter’s admitted that their efforts were purely humanitarian and not indicative of any political statements, but one cannot help but feel moved and inspired by the cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians depicted here.) Beyond the article itself being a mark of true hope, the talkbacks at the bottom of this article- which are usually just spurts of extremism and skepticism- show that people are filled with hope and ready for peace.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, redacted by Adeena Schlussel.
This awesome article in INC. Magazine, titled, “The Way I Work,” features Daniel and captures exactly how our CEO works! We are super proud that Daniel was featured in INC. and are even prouder that he is the fast paced, driven, successful worker that the article describes!
by Adeena Schlussel
Read this great article by Salam Fayyad. It represents the Palestinian mainstream of today and is very powerful and moving. [Read more →]
