NP Together in Grief

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Bereaved Relatives of Murdered Israelis and Palestinians Visit New York to
Plead for Peace
by Alisa Solomon, October 16 - 22, 2002
The Families Forum, which now includes 200 Palestinian and 200 Israeli
families, was founded by an Orthodox Jew, Yitzhak Frankenthal, after his
19-year-old son Arik was killed in 1994 by activists with Hamas, the
militant Islamic movement. "As I was sitting shivah for Arik a friend said
to me, 'Now you understand it is impossible to make peace with an enemy that
understands only violence,' and I knew that was all wrong," Frankenthal
says. "I knew the only reason Arik was murdered was that there was no peace
between our peoples and I blamed the leaders. The Palestinians were acting
exactly as we would if we would be under occupation. The occupation is a
kind of terror that we are doing against Palestinians, and they are doing
unacceptable terror against Israelis. As a man who loves his people and his
country, I decided that I had to do whatever I can to help bring
reconciliation and peace. There is no other solution."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0242/solomon.php

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