The Tikkun Solidarity Trip to Israel/Palestine is another act intended to increase understanding and nurture hope.
Culling from the itinerary, the group will go to Jerusalem (East and West), Ramallah, the Azza refugee camp, Bethlehem, Hebron, the Galilee, and an Arab village outside Haifa.
They will meet Jeff Halper from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom of Rabbis for Human Rights, President Yasser Arafat , Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, the cofounder for the Palestinian National Initiative, representatives from the Addamir Prisoner Support Center, members of Sabeel, the ecumenical Palestinian Center for Liberation Theology, the Mayor of Beit Sahour, Sami Awad and the Holy Land Trust staff, Hisham Sharabati, and Gush Shalom, among others.
They will also visit a settlement called Ephrata as well as the Sulha, a spiritual, musical, interfaith gathering that aims to heal and build trust by organizing community-oriented gatherings between Arabs and Jews in their own towns and villages.
I'm impressed with the range of people and places in this eight day tour, and wish my family obligations allowed me to go. (I wouldn't want to leave my husband and two small boys for so long). Good luck to those going, and a tip of the hat to Tikkun for organizing this.
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