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The hope of all ages is a unified world of peace
Building a global culture of heart and a world of lasting peace.
Middle East Peace Initiative(MEPI) 2007 Report.
76% of Israelis and Palestinians favor a two-state solution
Joint Israeli & Palestinian Public Opinion
The OneVoice poll of 23,000 Palestinians and 17,000 Israelis as reported in AP and Ha’aretz found that 76% on each side endorsed the two-state concept - a Palestinian state existing beside a Jewish state, "each recognizing the other as such, both democratic and respecting human rights, including minority rights."
Sources: Associated Press and Ha’aretz, May 2004.
European MEPI Activity 2006-7• March 11 - 17• May 15 - 24• August 21 - 25 • October 20 – 25 • November 12 - 17 • December 4 – 9• January 11 – 16 • February 9 – 14• April 10 - 15• Next MEPI dates • June 22 - 27• August 24 - 29
• MEPI has had 30 visits since 2002
MEPI Strategy• Projects for Peace
Promote constructive dialogue, service and reconciliation activities: Continue to support them from Europe.
• Prospects for Peace – hearing both sides.Neutral, balanced approach
• Bring Ambassadors For Peace from the World to the Region to be involved in this world level problem.
Projects for Peace
• Bereaved Family Forum• Yair Dalal – charity concert• Al-Tariq Youth Democracy
Education NGO• One Voice• Saving Lives Medical
project• Martin Luther King III• Interfaith Dialogue• Bridge of Peace
Rami Elhanen and Ibrahim Khalil
Bereaved Family Forum
Projects for Peace - Concert to Support Bereaved Families Forum
Concert to Support The Bereaved
Families Forum
Yair Dalal
Al- Tariq ‘The Way’ Palestinian Youth
Democracy Education NGO
November - Olivier Sayardi (France) meets Former Knesset Member Moshe Raz
‘All For Peace’ Radio
Dr. Peter Patel
• Saving Lives Medical Aid Agency
• Proposed Three Medical Centres Hebron, Nablus and Nazareth
Without MEPI introducing his organisation to the opinion leaders who are willing to make a difference it could not have happened. “MEPI has opened doors which we would not have been able to open”
Saving Lives Planning Meeting
European MEPI delegates visit to Caritas Baby Hospital Bethlehem June 2007
Visit to Gaza May 2005Computer Training
Centre
Play Football Make Peace
Martin Luther King III Non Violent Approach to Reduce Tensions
Hon. Walter Fauntroy Ex-Congressman
Marched with Rev Martin Luther King Jr
Inter-religious Dialogue
Bridge of Peace - Sisterhood
Prospects for Peace
• 1st Day Palestinian View• 2nd Day Israeli View• 3rd Day Sightseeing, Appointments and
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum• 4th Day Sightseeing or UN OCHA
Recognizing the Two Narratives
The Palestinian Narrative:
• Fear of Dispossession / 20th Century Jewish Immigration• Nakba of 1948• The 40-year Occupation (West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem)• Spiritual connection to the Holy Land
The Jewish Narrative:
• History of Jewish Persecution• Holocaust• Israel as Jewish ‘Safe Haven’• Spiritual connection to the Holy Land
1st Day Activities Continued
PASSIA – Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
Dr Hadi Abdul Mahdi
Meeting with Dr. Emil Jarjoui & Mayors of Beit Sahour, Beit Jala and Bethlehem
Daehashie Palestinian Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
Dr. Pietre Beelaerts von Blokland
Former Minister of Housing the Netherlands
Meeting Prisoner’s Relatives
Meeting Pres. Mahmoud Abbas
Meeting Dr. Saeb ErekatChief Negotiator Palestinian Authority
UN Office of Civil and Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Second Day Israeli ViewDavid Hacham
Arab Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Defence
General Dani Yatom MK: Deputy Leader of Labour Party, ex Chief of Mossad.
Israeli View
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Meeting former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
Prospects for Peace Session
Dr Jonathan Spyer: Herzylia Institute Former foreign press spokesperson in the office of the Prime Minister and Kamal Nawash US Palestinian
Nadia Hillou MK speaking at the Tel Aviv Conference
Prof. Moshe Amirav & Senator Alain Destexhe, Former International Sec Gen of Medicines Sans Frontiers
October MEPI - Willem Van Eekelen former Dutch Minister of Defence, Ehud Yaari Israel TV 2
An Israeli ViewAchiva Eldar Senior Columnist - Haaretz Newspaper
November MEPICeline Fremault MP (Belgium)
They were very concerned for communal peace in Belgium after July-August war.
Mayor Herve Doyan (Belgium)
Walid Sadik former Knesset Member and Deputy Speaker
Visit to UK
Bishop Riah Abu El Assal
'There was no agenda to persuade me either way. The program was very balanced and allowed me to meet and talk with a range of people involved in the conflict. The program was an eye opener and I am very grateful to UPF for taking me and showing me the situation firsthand.'
'It was a fantastic opportunity to do something I had long wanted to do. I had access to people from the very top and those at the grassroots. I was able to see the conflict through their eyes.'
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, of Watford UK