Combatants For Peace

Apr 2013 / The 8th Israeli Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony

The 8th Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony attracted this year 2400 Israelis from across the country, 44 Palestinians, CFP’s members were able to arrive. For the full Ceremony record press here (we will upload subtitles in English and Arabic soon) Our thanks and appreciation to the Social Television for shooting the event and for the editing [...]

Personal Stories

Zohar Shapira (Tel Aviv)

“At first I was running after children throwing stones. 12 years later I was shooting above children heads at their homes.” Photography by Dubi Roman Zohar Shapira, 40, is a teacher living in Tel Aviv. He served 15 years in the Israeli military, and for some of this time was a member of Israel’s top commando unit. [...]

Idan Barir (Tel Aviv)

“Descending from this hilltop settlement into the town of Jenin was like going from heaven down into hell.” Photography by Dubi Roman As a child I had a very clear idea of what patriotism was. I’d grown up with images of the glorious fighting of 1967 and wanted to be like those great Israeli heroes who had [...]

Chen Alon (Tel Aviv)

“My children were human, and yet we had dehumanized the Palestinian children” Photography by Dubi Roman Chen Alon is a theatre director, facilitator and lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Chen served for four years in the Israeli army and then for 11 years as an operations officer in the reserves. Later, he became a refusnik and as a result [...]

Projects

Non-violence project

The aim of the Non-Violence project is to equip the representatives of the local bi national groups with better knowledge and a more profound understanding of non-violence principles, so that they can teach the members of their own groups, and implement these principles in the field. A Seminar will mark the opening of a process, [...]

Meetings with ministers and political parties

“Combatants for Peace” has been meeting with ministers and political parties, in order to promote it’s positions into the political scene. On the Palestinian side, members of the movement have met the president Mr. Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) twice, and a third meeting is planned in the near future.

Political theater performances in the West Bank

CFP’s Tel Aviv-Tulkarm group uses the theatre activities based on Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’. This is the model which aims to bring change through theatre. The theatre is a non-violent tool that allows Israelis and Palestinians to work together to end the occupation and build a peace based on non-violent principles. One of the [...]

Promotional Film

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After watching and listening to everyone at the ceremony – speeches, facts and action – being a Palestinian I can see the hand reaching out for peace on the other side.

Yes, a thousand “yeses” for peace.
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