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Rabbis Without Borders
People-to-people peace-building works.
It’s been researched and documented, in Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and many other places. Without people-to-people peace-building on a massive scale that includes the most partisan sectors of the population, it is nearly impossible to bring the sides to the table to sign an agreement. Even if they sign, it won’t hold. Let the Oslo Accords serve as exhibit A. The signatures of politicians are not worth the paper they are affixed to if the people on both sides aren’t ready.
In intractable conflicts like ours, the two sides have inflicted such terrible suffering on each other that each sees the other as evil incarnate. Palestinians and Israelis are traumatized to the point at which the other side can do no good. Every act of theirs is perceived as part of a long line of aggression that only confirms what was already known about them.