Peacecamptalks

This is REEM's ESSAY


NEGOTIATING PEACE: A ROUND-TABLE DEBATE WITH DELEGATES FROM ISRAEL,
PALESTINE, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION.

Mahmod and Bin are two members of Lod's delegacy, Mahmod is an Arabic member
and Bin is a Jewish member.
Don't amaze that you find Arabic and Jewish are working in the same city,
but Lod is one of the mixed nation cities in Israel.
In Lod there are a lot of problems because Arabs are the lowest there and
they don't have a lot of laws.
One day Mahmod invite Bin to his house to see how he is living, then Bin
invite Mahmod to his house to see how he is living. Both of them saw the
differences between the Jewish lives and the Arabs live, and they decided to
show the others members there live.
Mahmod has relatives who are living in Palestine and he didn't see them for
a long time.
In a sunny day the delegacy decide to send 2 of its members to the United
States to talk about the situation in Lod, all the members of the delegacy
decide to send Mahmod and Bin because one of them Jewish and the second is
Arabian so every one can say his viewpoint.
Today Mahmod and Bin are visiting the United States to talk about the
argument.
There it was a shock for Mahmod because he saw one of his relatives, his
name is Ahmed. They hug each other and they talked for a moment because the
delegation starts.
In the delegation were Mahmod "the Israeli- Arabs delegate", Bin "the Jewish
delegate", Ahmed "the Palestinian delegate", Ricky "from the united
nations", and Romeo " from the European nation".
They start the delegation and every one of them must talk about his ideas
and expectations from the delegation.
Mahmod starts the delegation; I think that in Lod we don't have all of the
laws that other have. I visited a lot of Arab cities, Jewish cities, and
mixed nation cities and I saw that in most of the cities Arabs and Jewish
have the same laws but in Lod we don't have anything.
For example, in Lod we can't build houses and we don't have anything, but
Jewish have every thing. The situation in Lod is looking like the situation
in Jaffa we can't build, we can't live, we can't and we can't..
Bin: I agree with Mahmod because we visited the cities all over Israel
together and we saw how they are living. But I think that Arabs in Lod must
live in another city to have there laws because we can't make changes in the
government.
Ahmed: I don't know what to say I just want that we can start a new step and
forget the situation in Israel and think how to solve the problem of the
Middle East.
We can't live with fighting, we can't live in war, and we can't why we can't
live like the other nations? We are brothers and we believe that we are
living in our country why we can't make 2 countries Israel and Palestine one
for the Jewish and the other for the Arabs?
Ricky: I don't agree with anyone of you, in all the countries all over the
world I see that there are living a lot of nations in one country and you
can forget the land and live together Arabs and Jews.
Romeo: for me, all the people all over the world must think and think on
solutions to solve the problem. We are just 5 and we can't solve anything we
can just make decisions and solve the problem in Israel between Jews and
Arabs.
Mahmod: but most of my relatives are living in Palestine and I can't see
them why? Bin can see his relatives in every time he wants. Why I can't?
Ahmed: I have the same problem, for example Mahmod is my relative and I
didn't see him for 5 years and now I saw him in the delegation in the United
States and we are living nearer and we can't see each other.
Romeo: that's a big problem but we can change every thing if we look in for
making bright future.
Ricky: I think that you must start from the zero; every one must teach his
children that he must love others and must help people not to fight people.
Romeo: you must make 1 government for the 2 countries and you have to put
your hands together and solve every thing together.
Bin: the people are the same and there are no differences between Arabs and
Jews.
Ahmed: I think that these are the great solutions and we must try and try
until we will success.
Mahmod: I agree with you.
The 5 friends hug each other and Bin and Mahmod return to Israel and Ahmed
return to Palestine.
They start to work because they didn't just talk they have to act.
Mahmod and Bin start to make changes from Lod there city, every thing in Lod
changed Jews and Arabs have the same laws. In Israel the situation is
brighter than what it was.
Ahmed teaches his children to love Jews and Bin did the same thing.
Arabs and Jews love each other and they believe that there is no war and
they stop the war.
Now they are living together 2 nations in 1 country called Palesrael.
The members of the government are from the 2 nations and they are deciding
by the call of the most.
This thing happened in 2020 it takes 15 years to make these changes.
There children are learning in the same school and every thing is bright and
shiny and every place is safe.
Jesus shines in Palesrael land and God endorse the land.

Written by: Reem Matani- Arabian participant

Reem - you were the only one who participated at the writers's contest.
A little gift is on the way.
Enjoy it
Evelyn