Why Morocco can be a model for Jewish-Arab partnership
Yes we can. We can imagine good relations between Jews and Arabs here, in the State of Israel, and generally in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This is the main insight with which I returned from a very meaningful trip together with members of the Shaharit “120″ program, a multicultural group working towards a new social partnership in Israel.
We, a group of 20 men and women from diverse backgrounds, traveled to Morocco during a difficult period. These days, more than ever, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at center stage. Violence in Gaza, despite the many casualties of the last war in 2014, is waiting to resume; a third intifada started in Jerusalem and the West Bank; more and more people fall victim to physical and verbal violence.
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Birth of a new hope
My first baby was almost due, and I had just been to see the doctor for a final examination.
I was so exhausted and upset when I got back home that I went straight to bed. An hour later when my husband came home I was still lying there, crying.
Eastern Ghouta had been under a government-imposed siege for more than a year, during which time it had been starved of both food and medicine. Local hospitals were struggling to cope and a natural birth would risk post-delivery complications that could not be treated.
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The ghosts of Qana
In a quiet corner of Qana village in south Lebanon, lies a ruined single-room building consisting of a meter-high wall and a black metal frame. There is little to see inside – just a profusion of weeds flush with the spring rains, some broken glass and an old discarded boot. Embedded in each of the four corners are the burnt and blackened stumps of wooden poles that once supported a roof of tin sheets. It is a lonely and peaceful spot, shaded by pine trees and with views stretching north across a valley studded with olive trees to the neighboring village of Aitit.
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