Ta'ayush

Hey,

I am posting this website:

www.taayush.org

This is the website for an NGO of joint Jewish - Arab membership. I am considering going on a tour of theirs tomorrow, to see various parts of the Separation Wall and learn more about it. I encourage you folks to look up their website and see some of the current issues that are in Israel / Palestine and what some people are doing about them.

Here is their identity statement from their website:

We -- Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel -- live surrounded by walls and barbed wire: the walls of segregation, racism, and discrimination between Jews and Arabs within Israel; the walls of closure and siege encircling the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and the wall of war surrounding all inhabitants of Israel, so long as Israel remains an armed fortress in the heart of the Middle East.

In the fall of 2000 we joined together to form "Ta'ayush" (Arabic for "life in common"), a grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership. A future of equality, justice and peace begins today, between us, through concrete, daily actions of solidarity to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and to achieve full civil equality for all Israeli citizens.