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Fathom Highlight: Building Peace from the Grassroots / 04 August / 2015

In this week’s Fathom Highlight Joel Braunold makes the case for the importance of people-to-people movements in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Joel is the US Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP).

Our Voice of the Week features former Israeli Ambassdor to the US Michael Oren in conversation about his controversial new memoir, Ally, with David Suissa, president of Tribe Media and Jewish Journal.

Our Image of the Week is of an anti-violence and anti-homophobia rally in Jerusalem, on 1 August 2015, following the arson attack in the Palestinian village of Duma which killed a toddler and severely injured others, and a stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Pride parade the day before, where an ultra orthodox Jewish man stabbed six people. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Building Peace from the Grassroots

by Joel Braunold | July 8, 2015

On 30 June 2015, Joel Braunold, US Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) spoke to a Fathom Forum on the importance of people-to-people movements to any eventual resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When the Palestine Survey and Research Group published their quarterly research on levels of support for the two-state solution, everyone concentrated on the top line point, which is that support for the two-state solution has dropped to 51 per cent support in Israel and has...

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