Arabs and Jews work together to make a drama out of a crisis

[LeftishBrit]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3740143.ece

In a hillside hamlet beside a forest, Jewish and Arab teenagers from the Holy Land are living together in a pioneering experiment to overcome racial prejudice.

There will be no debating their divisive histories, no lighting candles for peace, no lectures on the brotherhood of man. Instead, they are being instructed to dress as warriors, wood-cutters and sorcerers.

The Asha Centre, a retreat in rural Gloucestershire, has been converted for four weeks into a drama boot camp where the 16-year-olds will stage an adaptation of Grimm’s fairytales....

“I never expected to actually become friends with the Muslims who are my people’s enemies,” Avital Zohat, 17, a Jewish girl, said. “But it is great being with them.”

(More at link).

[oberliner]

1. Always nice to read a story like this

Thanks for posting!

[bemildred]

2. "My goodness, they are people, just like the others I know."

A good thing this.