Heart and Soul: Israel – Gaza: Can interfaith work prevail?
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The recent violence between Israel and Hamas threatens the survival of the hundreds of small-scale projects which aim to bring Jews and Palestinians together to work for peace, or at least share understanding. Now the flare up in violence threatens their future. To discuss the way forward and question the future of such projects, Caroline Wyatt brings together people from different faith backgrounds who’ve been working for years to build bridges in this volatile area of the Middle East. Presenter: Caroline Wyatt Producer: Julia Paul / Rajeev Gupta Editor: Helen Grady Production Coordinator: Mica Nepomuceno
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| 0:00.0 | Sport, but not as you know it. Yes, you're good enough. We wish we could take you, but you're a girl. |
| 0:08.0 | Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service. The rules were holding her back so she would have to rewrite them |
| 0:15.8 | listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts hello and welcome to the documentary |
| 0:21.8 | on the BBC World Service and a special edition of Heart |
| 0:25.2 | and Soul. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Caroline Wyatt and today we're delving into the lives and work of individuals striving |
| 0:31.6 | to build understanding and encourage peace in one of the world's most challenging |
| 0:36.1 | conflicts. The Israel-Palestinian struggle. We want to hear the voices of those still trying to |
| 0:42.1 | do that work of bridging the divides in a place where grief, anger and despair are now often the dominant emotions. |
| 0:50.0 | In this roundtable discussion we're joined by three remarkable guests, each representing a different faith, each deeply involved in interfaith efforts to try to bring peace and understanding amidst the turmoil. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's first of all introduce our guests. |
| 1:07.0 | My name is Mohammed Darauchy. |
| 1:09.0 | I am the director of strategy at Givat Haviva Center for Shared Society. |
| 1:14.0 | It's the first peace education institution in the Middle East actually. |
| 1:19.0 | Started already in 1963 and we focus on youth and teachers training in conflict resolution. |
| 1:27.0 | My name is Peter Jones-Peller, and my name says quite a lot about me because Peter is an Australian name. I was born in Australia, |
| 1:35.2 | but Pelach is an Israeli name, a Hebrew name. Today I'm particularly representing my |
| 1:41.2 | organization Women Wage Peace, of which I'm a passionate member. |
| 1:46.0 | Women Wage Peace is the largest grassroots peace organization in the country with 50,000 participants and we believe that women are essential |
| 1:56.7 | in peacemaking so we believe in the two prongs if you like the peacemaking and |
| 2:01.5 | that Israel and the Palestinians must reach a negotiated peace agreement and |
| 2:07.3 | UN Resolution 1325 that it's terribly important to include women in this process. |
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