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Help us build trust,
relationships, and partnerships among neighbors, citizens, and immigrants of different
faiths and cultures
Mid East Dialogues
Brooklyn
Mon. Dec 9, 2012
Sun. Jan. 13, 2013
Manhattan
Wed. Dec 12, 2012
Wed. Jan. 23, 2013
Westchester
Thurs. Dec. 20, 2012
Thurs. Jan. 24, 2013
Call The Dialogue Project at 718-768-2175 for more information.
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Middle East Dialogue Circles
In any given month there are approximately 110 active dialogers engaging in dialogue in and around New York City. Isralies, Palestinains, American Jews and Arab and Muslim americans engage each other on issues surrounding the people, politics and history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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SAMPLE DIALOGUE AGENDAS AND DESCRIPTIONS
Mid East Dialogues meet in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and
Westchester. Conversations/encounters include former Israeli
Soldiers, Holocaust Survivors, Naqba Survivors, College youth raised on
Settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian Americans whose children are
now studying in the West Bank, Jewish Americans with family
in Israel, Palestinian's who left following the 1967 war and more
recently, Russian and Easter European Jews who found refuge in Israel,
Yemeni and Iraqi Jews who identify as Arab and many
“interested others” from all walks of life with a
deep concern for and connection to the land and the people who live
there. Groups vary each month with an average of 42 - 80
people meeting face to face all around the city.
Agenda I: Palestinian commemoration of
Naqba
Jewish celebration of founding of state of Israel
Discussion Questions: Our stories about these events. How can
our speaking about these events promote an environment for
understanding and curiosity about each other’s experience?
1. How do you participate (or not) in these events?
2. How do you speak about these events in your own community?
3. How do you speak about these events with those outside
your community?
4. Is there a difference between how you speak to people in
your community and how you speak to those outside your community?
5. How does it make you feel when you hear the
“other” speak about these events?
Agenda II: Discussion: Meaning of “home” as it
relates to Israel/Palestine
a. Reflections from last Dialogue: Feelings about
“the land”: “Where do I belong? Some
dialoguers said:
“Israel as the
place where she can be herself, feeling as a guest in US.”
“Going to
Germany torn between feeling herself an American or
Palestinian”.
“Experience of
persecution here, belief in Israel as the end of oppression, sense of
betrayal”.
“Proud
American, Palestinian home”
b. For Israel or Palestine to be considered
“home” does that require a Jewish or Palestinian
majority?
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