Cross-border blog promotes Israel-Gaza peace

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - "Peace man" is from the Gaza Strip. "Hope man" lives across the Israeli border in Sderot.

Both yearn for an end to violence and have grand dreams of nurturing Palestinian-Israeli friendship and promoting peace.

But since Hamas Islamists seized control of Gaza in June and Israel shut its frontier, the two have been unable to meet, let alone work on plans for a Gaza-Sderot children's summer camp.

So they decided to keep their friendship alive in cyberspace by creating a joint blog in English that explores daily life on both sides of Israel's conflict with Hamas and pushes for an end to the violence.

"We wanted to open our lives and suffering to the world and show this isn't just a political issue, there are real people involved," Hope man, a 42-year-old father of three, told Reuters by telephone.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAL1949288020080219

Here's a link to their blog: http://www.gaza-sderot.blogspot.com/

[LeftishBrit]

1. Thanks for posting this - very moving!

If only more people would make contact across the divide and realize that violence has to stop on both sides!

'After long discussion between both of us ,and from different projects we reached and agreed to make (summer camp Between sederot and Gaza ) we said that’s may be our children will change the future and we have to start from them ,and teach them how to love ,and what the meaning of peace ,as our leader still continuing dealing with violence way .'


I wish all the best for this project! Maybe if Israeli and Palestinian children start early to recognize each other as human beings, rather than just as 'enemies', then there may be greater hope for the future.