Even in the ‘Oasis of Peace’ — where Arabs and Jews are neighbors — residents struggle to talk about the Israel-Hamas war

Wahat al-Salam (Arabic) or Neve Shalom (Hebrew) translates to "Oasis of Peace." It's an intentional, cooperative community that sits in the Israeli countryside, about halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Its residents are half Jewish, and half Arab. So, what is this community (which was founded in 1969 -- just two years after the Six Day War)? Who lives there, what is their socio-political experiment, is it successful, and what does it mean to be living in this community at this moment of extraordinarily heightened tension? There is a family at Neve Shalom with a Palestinian Muslim father whose family was displaced during the Nakba, and a European Jewish mother whose relatives are settlers in the West Bank. Their children are a complicated mix of the displaced and the displacers. I believe I can get access to this family to anchor the story.