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DESCRIPTION:Israeli & Palestinian\nCombatants  for Peace\nfeaturing Bassam Aramin\nand 
 Elik Elhanan\n\nWednesday January 30,\nReception with light refreshments:  
 5:30p.m., downstairs, Vets Hall\nProgram 7:30pm., Vets Hall Room 23, \n826 
 Front Street, Santa Cruz\n\nCombatants for Peace was founded by former 
 Israeli and Palestinian fighters who no longer see each other as enemies. 
 They forswear violence and advocate an end to the Israeli Occupation of the 
 Palestinian West Bank & Gaza Strip. Bassam Aramin, formerly a Fatah fighter 
 who spent 7 years in an Israeli prison, now heads the Al Quds Association 
 for Democracy and Dialogue. Bassam received the Bremen Peace Award for 
 reconciliation work and the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern 
 Journalism. Elik Elhanan, served as a soldier in an Israeli Defense Forces 
 combat unit from 1995-98 and is now a military refuser. In 1997 a 
 Palestinian suicide bomber killed his sister in Jerusalem.\n\nOn January, 
 2007, Palestinian girls were walking home from school in East Jerusalem. 
 Israeli Border Police firing rubber bullets wounded and killed 10-year old 
 Abir Aramin, Bassam's daughter. Combatants for Peace has joined other 
 Palestinian, Israeli and International peace & human rights organizations 
 to memorialize Abir to build ABIR'S GARDEN on the grounds of her school for 
 her classmates to gather, play, and heal.\n\nElhanan & Aramin are part of a 
 national speaking tour, one year after Abir was fatally wounded. Bassam's 
 wife Salwa and daughter Areen will be present.\n\nSuggested donation $5-$10 
 sliding-scale (no one turned away for lack of funds). Proceeds benefit 
 Abir's Garden & Combatants for Peace. For more information, call 
 831-423-1626 or www.rcnv.org\n\nCombatants for Peace is hosted in Santa 
 Cruz by the Middle East Program of the Resource Center for Nonviolence and 
 WILPF-Santa Cruz Branch. The Combatants for Peace national tour is 
 organized by The Rebuilding Alliance and Women of a Certain Age. For more 
 information and to support the Abir's Garden Project go to 
 http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/29/18475598.php
SUMMARY:Israeli & Palestinian Combatants for Peace
LOCATION:Wednesday January 30,\nReception with light refreshments:  5:30p.m., 
 downstairs, Vets Hall\nProgram 7:30pm., Vets Hall Room 23, \n826 Front 
 Street, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/29/18475598.php
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DTEND:20080131T043000Z
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