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DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser for the documentary by independent filmmaker Laura J. Beatty. 
 The film is about grassroots peace and reconciliation efforts between 
 Israelis and Palestinians at the annual gathering of Tariq Al-Sulha (The 
 Sulha Way), a 3-day event held in northern Israel in August 2004. A fine 
 cut of the film will screen at the event.   \n\nHosted by the San Francisco 
 Presbytery Peacemaking Task Force.  
 http://riters.com/PresbyterianPeacemaking/\n\nSuggested minimum donation:  
 $20\n\n***\nSynopsis:\n\nGabriel and Eliyahu are on a road that has no map. 
  Where the political dialogue has failed to bring an end to the 
 Israeli-Palestinian conflict these two Israelis, members of a tribe of 
 visionaries from both sides of the border, dare to succeed.  Inspired by 
 sulha, the traditional Middle Eastern process of reconciliation, they hope 
 to begin to heal the wounds of the past fifty years and, in so doing, spark 
 a revolutionary movement for peace.\n\nRana, Khaled and Said are all 
 Palestinians from the West Bank.  The only Jews in their world are 
 soldiers. Gabriel and Eliyahu hope to change that. Along with 250 other 
 Palestinians, as well as Jews and Arabs from all over Israel, they have 
 been invited to The Sulha Way, a 3-day peace gathering in northern Israel. 
 \n\nFor the Palestinians, it is a chance to finally meet a Jew outside of 
 their normal confrontational encounters, on relatively equal footing.  But 
 that isn't the only opportunity presented. Though it is only for three 
 days, it is a chance to taste freedom for the first time in years - to 
 actually leave the West Bank.\n\nFor the peace activists, the journey 
 begins and ends with Abraham, biblical father to both the Jewish and Muslim 
 peoples. With their faith riding on the transformative power of personal 
 connection, they seek an apolitical and spiritually based solution to the 
 conflict.  In order to facilitate the dialogue, they have invited 
 peacemakers from around the globe, leaders who have recently emerged from 
 their own ethnic conflicts, among them a Tibetan monk, a Zulu priest and an 
 Irish Catholic peace activist. As quixotic an approach as it may be, the 
 strength of their convictions is as fierce as the hatred they seek to 
 neutralize.\n\nThe Road to Sulha tells the story of their encounter as 
 Israelis and Palestinians meet with their inherited enemies and in the 
 process, are forced to confront their own relationships to the conflict. 
 Punctuated by the moving stories of Rami and Ali, two survivors of the 
 violence that has wreaked havoc on thousands of families from both sides 
 this is the story of one small group's efforts at peace in one of the 
 world's most enduring and bloody conflicts.\n \n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/27/57833.php
SUMMARY:Documentary:  The Road to Sulha
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church   2727 College Avenue, Berkeley  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/27/57833.php
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