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Visiting Shfara'm

Before 2 months an Israeli soldier killed 4 Arabs. 2 sisters and another 2
men and they are from the same city that called Shfara'm.
In this city are living people from 3 religions, Christians, Moslems, and
Dross. And there are 2 Jewish families.
We decided "Arabs and Jewish" to visit the families and to share them there
pain.
First we visited the muslems family that lost 2 daughters, they explained
for us about the accident and Nili talked about the pain and that we are
sharing them the pain then I give the family my peace camp T-shirt and there
are our signatures Arabs, Jewish, Slovenian, and Austrian.
I decided to give my T-shirt to the family because it's meaningful because
we draw it and because it is the symbol for peace.
I mean that the content is making peace so when our camp gives them the
T-shirt with our signatures we say that all the people are sharing the pain
and we must forget the past and look forward to make a bright future.
Then we visited the 2 Christian families and we shared them the pain.
After that we ate in a restaurant then we visited a church in Shfara'm and
the abbe explained every thing for us about the church.
After that we finish our trip and I hope that we can visit Jewish family to
share them there pains and I hope to visit a holocaust survivor.
The purpose is that Arabs and Jewish are the same and we must open a new
page and to build our lives in love and peace.

Written by: Reem Matani
Arabian participant

Wow I really think that was a very good idea to visit them and to talk with them and... Reem to give your t-shirt to the family, our symbol for peace!!! So you (all the Israelis) meet quite often ..and I think that's really good so go on like this!! all the best for all of you Michaela