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Anan Ameri & Dick Soble: "For any two other people, the debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might have gotten ugly. He’s Jewish and supports a two-state solution. She’s Palestinian and wants one state with equal rights, which critics say would spell the end for a Jewish homeland. He condemns the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. She says it was to be expected. Though she doesn’t want civilians killed, “violence,” she says, “breeds violence.” But these two are not enemies. They’re best friends, and have been close for more than 50 years." |
50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
"... On a one- versus two-state solution, Ameri supports one, covering the area of Israel and the Palestinian territories. She previously supported two, but now sees the more than 700,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as an insurmountable barrier and doesn’t believe a nation of Palestine would be permitted to arm itself.
Soble supports two states, in part to maintain a Jewish homeland in the event global antisemitism again rises near the extremes of the Holocaust.
But on an overarching point, they agree: Both want an immediate end to the war.
“There are those who believe in one-state, two-state, and there are now 17,000 people who have no state,” Soble said, referring to the number of Palestinians killed by the time they spoke. “So we have to prioritize what we put our political efforts behind, and any other discussion sidetracks us from (the cease-fire being) critical to getting to any other solution.”
Interviewed separately, Ameri and Soble both spoke to the shared values and principles they say make their open dialogue possible"... READ MORE https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/05/cross-cultural-friendship-survives-israeli-palestinian-conflict/72087017007/
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