Article 6GPG7 "There Is an Alternative": Meet the Israeli & Palestinian "Combatants for Peace" Urging Nonviolence

"There Is an Alternative": Meet the Israeli & Palestinian "Combatants for Peace" Urging Nonviolence

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With Israel and Palestine experiencing the worst violence in decades, we speak with two co-founders of Combatants for Peace, a group composed of people from both sides of the conflict who have committed to nonviolence and peaceful coexistence. Avner Wishnitzer is a former member of Sayeret Matkal, one of the Israel Defense Forces' elite commando units, and Sulaiman Khatib spent more than 10 years in prison after being arrested as a teenager for an attack on Israeli soldiers. The two recently co-authored a piece for The New York Review of Books on modeling a nonviolent path toward peace. We are offering a different direction that's based on partnership and common interest and common values," says Khatib. Wishnitzer adds that only a political solution can bring lasting peace. When people are fed with the idea that there is no choice but violence, they respond with violence to each other," he says.

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