Ofer Shinar
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Do you think this emotional breakthrough is achieved simply by a Palestinian coming to an Israeli school or an Israeli going to a Palestinian school?
We've done all kinds of things, and you know what, it works almost every time; it doesn't matter whether it's an Israeli or a Palestinian, although it's stronger when you have both sides. We have a short movie, 8 minutes long, 'Tears of Peace,'1 which shows how people from both sides can react to each other, and reactions are very strong, it's about Waxman and Ramadan, two bereaved fathers. It's a good movie to show, it's exactly the thing that reconciliation tries to do. It shows people who do not use their own sorrow to instigate further violence.- 1recounts "the personal stories of two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who lost their sons as a result of the ongoing conflict between the two peoples." www.theparentscircle.org/Pages