An Israeli and a Palestinian who each lost a child in the conflict have addressed meetings in Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow this week on their hopes for peace and reconciliation.
Robi Damelin and Bassam Aramin, of the Parents Circle – Family Forum were in the UK to help promote Invest in Peace, an initiative between the Board of Deputies and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.
Mr Aramin — a Palestinian who spent seven years in an Israeli prison before embracing peace -— told the Leeds event at St Matthew’s Church School: “One Israeli soldier killed my daughter but 100 ex-Israeli soldiers from Combatants for Peace built a garden in her memory.”
He had come to appreciate that “if you want to make peace with your enemy, you need to work with your enemy.
“I believe from my own experience that we need to share the promised land called Palestine whether it is in two states or five states or one state.
