Some Palestinians and Israelis are working together for peace

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"I am Palestinian and an Israeli citizen, and I'm afraid and hurt. But the fact that we're all reunited here helps me to have hope."  Some Palestinians and Israeli people are joining forces and calling for peace.

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00:00Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.

00:05May peace be upon us.

00:08May peace be upon us.

00:10May peace be upon us all.

00:14May peace be upon us.

00:16When I talk to people, I don't remember what the race is,

00:20or where are they coming from, which city or village.

00:24I only think they are human beings that need to be treated.

00:29If there are any problems between Jews and Arabs,

00:34it is not felt in medical institutions and hospitals.

00:55We are against the police.

00:57We are against the police.

00:59We are against the police.

01:00We are against the police.

01:17I am Palestinian and I am an Israeli citizen.

01:21I am afraid and I am in pain,

01:24but I am full of hope because we are here today

01:28and we really need to fight together.

01:34We believe it is possible that our Palestinian citizens of Israel

01:52and Jewish citizens of Israel will stand together

01:54and will struggle together.

01:56I am a Palestinian, but I am also an Israeli citizen.

02:01We are in a position where we live in a very, very complex situation

02:06as Palestinians in Israel.

02:08We live together.

02:09We have a shared life together.

02:11We share many things together.

02:13You realize that it is absolutely necessary to organize together

02:19as Jews and Arabs to reach a point where we actually reach

02:25the very deep understanding that we share the interest for peace

02:31and we share the interest for equality and social justice.

02:35Without organizing and reaching that kind of understanding

02:39within Israeli society, I don't think the UN

02:43or the international society is going to save us

02:46or save the Palestinian people.

02:48It really has to come from here.

02:52For that, we need Arab-Jewish partnership.

02:56We think the majority want peace.

02:58The majority of Arabs, Palestinians living here,

03:01the majority of Jews would want to live in a secure reality,

03:06in a quiet reality, in a peaceful reality,

03:09but we have a leadership of our country.

03:12We have a small minority, which is a very extreme minority

03:15that just puts us in the situation where we are seeing

03:19more and more cycles of violence, more and more cycles of war

03:23and a deepening of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

03:28This reality is bringing our lives to be endangered.

03:33What Alon is saying is something that we strongly believe in,

03:37but we are not naive.

03:39We know that the realities of things are much more complex

03:43in a sense that there are narratives that are working,

03:50very deeply rooted narratives within Israeli society

03:55that are working against that notion and against our vision.

04:05We understand that.

04:07They have been dividing us.

04:10Creating this binary reality of Arabs and Jews and of Palestinians

04:14and Israelis and of even Mizrahi and Ashkenazi and Ethiopian

04:21and white and Haredi and secular.

04:26These narratives are all working against us in a sense that

04:30they are working to divide us and not organize us around

04:34what Alon has described.

04:37We're not naive, but we are optimistic in a sense that

04:42I don't think we have another option.

04:45I think that's the key decision we made.

04:49We made it when we joined the movement,

04:54but it's the key decision we made a week ago

04:56when we decided that we will not be silent.

04:58We will not just sit at our homes and watch this reality escalate

05:02and become so horrific, but we will organize and mobilize

05:06and take so many people out of their homes to just stand together

05:11and demand peace and demand social justice and demand equality

05:15and demand immediate ceasefire from this war.

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