from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, March 25th.

Now changing the polarized way people talk about the Middle East and reintroducing the word peace on both sides.

We have two guests. One, a Jewish Israeli, the other a Palestinian Israeli, from the group

called Standing Together, which says they quote, organized Jews and Arabs locally and nationally

around campaigns for peace. In Israel, they organize around both Israel-Palestine issues and economic ones,

like the minimum wage and gentrification.

And when leaders of standing together came to the United States for one speaking tour in the fall,

largely on college campuses, they found what they called a different kind of war zone,

marked as one of the guests were about to meet, was quoted saying by, quote,

very theorized discussions about who is more righteous.

So let's take it from there with them to talk about the situation over there and the situation over here.

Joining us now, Rula daoud and Alonle

Lee Green, national co-directors of Standing Together. Alonle is a Jewish citizen of Israel. Rula is a

Palestinian citizen of Israel. Thank you for making this one of your stops. Welcome both of

you to WNYC. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for having us.

Alonle, would you start and tell people more about the group and its mission? Yeah, sure. So standing

together is a Jewish-Palestinian grassroots movement operating within Israel to bring together

people from across communities to work against this war for peace, against the occupation,

and for equality to all the people that live on this land.

We understand that this war is bringing us nothing but more sorrow and misery.

And of course, the Palestinian people in Gaza are paying an unbearable, unfathomable price.

So, you know, on normal days, we talk about peace, we talk about social justice, we talk about equality,

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