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quarta-feira, 3 de setembro de 2014

lessons from the horror

lessons from the horror
Lessons from the horror
The college is the only Max Rayne Jerusalem where Israeli and Palestinian children study together
CARMEN RENGEL Jerusalem 1 SEP 2014 - 17:21 EDT
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Max Rayne school girls read in one of his classes. / DAVID SILVERMAN (GETTY)
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Efrat Mayer does not need a megaphone. His voice is heard even in the ranks of the background, and this is because before 400 people. "We got $ 5,000 (11,000 dollars) to Gaza in a few days and start packing humanitarian aid", informs happy. Efrat is one of the coordinators of the Max Rayne school, or side by side, as we all know, the only educational center in Jerusalem which they study together Israeli and Palestinian children, about 600, who also taught Hebrew and Arabic, history of a side and the other lines of war and especially lessons in humanity to understand who others want to turn into adversaries.
The speech is brief. Serves to thank the hundreds of teachers, parents and children gathered at the gates of the school into a new gear, possibly the last, as they have done every Sunday since the beginning of Operation Threshold Shield in Gaza. Without the strengthening of peace and values ​​that gives the Side by side, young people would be passing holiday full of anguish, each in your neighborhood, in your environment, listening threats and curses on the contrary. It was necessary to unite them again. And they succeeded, a weekly march without banners or flags in which the only motto is the shirt of students: walk together, written in three languages​​.
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Kifah Abu Shamaine, father of Mahmud of eight years, explains as she walks her son "needed something that showed what he learned in college did not lose the war. Walk, even in silence as he does sometimes means moving forward. It is a symbol. It gave us peace and confidence in these weeks, "he acknowledged. There are mothers and Shelly - impossible to note the surname while out running for your little skater will not fall - who refuse to be seen as "rare animals" of the city. "We are convinced that bringing the kids here are creating a new generation of citizens who know directly, without prejudice or shadows, which overthrew walls. They see their friends, not a flag. Learn from them every day, "says excited.
The college was established in 1998 and now teaches children from preschool to the end of high school. Is situated between the Israeli neighborhood of Patt and the Palestinian Beit Safafa. In each room there is a teacher and another Israeli Arab, who use both languages ​​interchangeably. The portfolios mingle Christians, Muslims and Jews of various trends. There is, for example, Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, advocating a model study that has already been exported to five Israeli cities, and that shelters children from any social stratum.
Uri Ben Zion, father of tireless redheaded, points out that in the vicinity of the college a "community of friends" was created. Hugs and kisses as they come up in the march Realize your statement. Recognizes that not everyone of your surroundings who likes bet educational for your child. "It's hard, but it's more honest. My brothers sometimes can not talk to my son because it exposes dilemmas. Here are not indoctrinated racism. Here there is space to demonstrate that, in practice if we already live together, even if we do not look in, if one day we repair that one on our side is another 'I', cease to hurt us, "he insists.
Today young people start new school semester without bombs or rockets in Gaza, and the merit of having kept alive his friendship and his respect for who speaks and prays and looks different, but it is not.

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