It was one of those nights you “kind of had to be there.” One of our cell leaders said, “It was valuable to me to observe people’s reactions when I invited them to this event. Many people were quite shocked: ‘Are you kidding me? You are actually going to spend time thinking about that?’ and then they were intrigued that we, as a people, spend time thinking about things like this. Very valuable. ” About 120 people had an opportunity to find it valuable. Many have said they did.
There was a lot going on in the meeting. We had an historical overview of the Israel/Palestine coexistence/conflict, instruction about illegal settlements, about the infamous separation barrier, about unequal access to resources, about house demolition, about militarization.
We tried to keep it played out on a backdrop of hope, since the delegation met some of the most amazing people ever, in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories, who are keeping their hope and acting with peace in their hearts every day, with some remarkable results.
Hopefully, some people will comment who want to inform us about further resources and what MCC and others are doing to follow up on what we saw.
