Israel and Palestine: The Path to Peace

Gaslit Nation

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

“And hope here, I don't think it's passive. It is active. It's a form of resistance against despair. And it must be paired with a political imagination, that belief that we can build the future.”

–Wasim Almasri, Director of Programs, The Alliance for Middle East Peace

In this important conversation, Andrea and Terrell speak with Avi Meyerstein, Founder and President of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), and Wasim Almasri, Director of Programs based in the West Bank city of Ramallah. They discuss what a meaningful path to peace looks like for Israelis and Palestinians, how to achieve it, the priorities the outgoing and incoming U.S. administrations must focus on, and the pending ceasefire deal, which has seen a resurgence of promising negotiations in recent days.

If you’re looking for defiant hope and a light to show the way in these dark times, listen to the team at ALLMEP who have been hard at work planting powerful seeds of change. For more on their work, check at the link at the top of the show notes.

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Show Notes:

The Alliance for Middle East Peace: https://www.allmep.org/

Hopes for Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal rise Israeli officials, Hamas sources, and US and Arab figures say deal may be within reach – perhaps within days https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/israeli-negotiators-head-to-qatar-as-hopes-rise-for-gaza-hostage-deal

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0:31.1	Hey everyone, welcome to Gatslet Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.
0:48.5	The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it. This week, we are running a very special conversation. It took place
0:55.6	days following the one-year anniversary of October 7th. We held this conversation because it's so
1:02.0	important. We didn't want it to get lost in the noise of the 2024 election because there's so
1:08.1	much that is said in this that will light the way for not only
1:12.4	Israelis and Palestinians to finally live in peace, for their children to live in peace and heal
1:17.6	and generations of trauma, but for all of us, no matter where we are in the world, to learn
1:23.2	the skills of conflict resolution and building peace wherever we are and not giving up and being
1:28.9	tenacious in the mission for peace. This is a beautiful conversation. It is a heartfelt conversation.
1:34.5	And this group was brought to my attention by a Gaslit Nation listener. And I'm so thankful for that.
1:40.3	And joining me is Terrell Star of the Black Diplomats podcast and Substack.
1:45.0	We are going to be talking with the wonderful folks behind All MEP, the Alliance for Middle East Peace.
1:51.4	Here's a short clip about their extraordinarily important work that all world leaders everywhere, all donors everywhere, large and small, need to listen to because this is the group
2:03.0	that is centering civil society, which is the light, the light in all the darkness of the
2:09.0	war that we've seen between Israelis and Palestinians. This is the group that is shining the way
2:13.3	and showing the way forward for all of us. The Alliance for Middle East Peace is the largest and fastest growing network of Palestinian and Israeli peace builders.
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