An Israeli and a Palestinian share their stories of reconciliation with Bassam Aramin, Palestinian Co-Director of The Parents Circle Families Forum and Robi Damelin, Israeli spokesperson for the Parents Circle Families Forum, moderated by Marta Zaknoun, journalist
The Parents Circle – Families Forum ("PCFF") is the only association in the world that does not wish to welcome any new members into its fold. The bloody conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian societies has taken a heavy toll on each of its members. Each of them, in fact, has lost an immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. It is through this pain that all of the PCFF members have chosen to exchange their feelings of rage and revenge, helplessness, despair and the void, with activities of hope for reconciliation.
Speakers will show that when attention is paid to a shared human experience rather than to abstract ideas and preconceptions, seemingly unbridgeable distances between people are discovered to be, in reality, paper-thin.
This event is sponsored by American Friends of the Parents Circle Families Forum.
