近距离内射合集

Santa Fe-based nonprofit Tomorrow鈥檚 Women has brought together Palestinian and Israeli girls to forge connections and move toward peace for 20 years, producing roughly 400 alumnae.

The organization鈥檚 leaders believe that work is more important now than ever.

鈥淭he Palestinians have the chance to meet the Israelis in a different context than the uniform and the checkpoints and everyday life,鈥� Lama Abuarqoub, Palestinian dialogue facilitator for Tomorrow鈥檚 Women who鈥檚 from the West Bank, said Thursday. 鈥淎nd the Israelis also have the opportunity to meet Palestinians who are not throwing stones, who are not saying hateful things, who are not angry. Just giving them the chance to have a normal life together makes them feel that it鈥檚 possible. If it can be done here in the camp, in the seminars, then it can happen also in the conflict zone that we share.鈥�

For the young leader program in Santa Fe, every summer a cohort of 16 teenage girls, eight Israeli and eight Palestinian, have the chance to live together, participate in dialogue sessions together, do therapeutic art together and enjoy fun activities together for 21 days. Sometimes those conversations are painful.

鈥淲e think about our work as 鈥榯rack two鈥� diplomacy,鈥� said Executive Director Tarrie Burnett, who works out of an office in Santa Fe. 鈥淭rack one is like what happened when (President Joe) Biden went to meet with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu. We鈥檙e track two. We鈥檙e people-to-people peacebuilding. Even if a peace treaty was signed tomorrow, there would still be deep animosity on the grounds and civil conflict. And so we鈥檙e working on building a strong civil society.鈥�

Alumnae of the nonprofit鈥檚 foundational programs have gone on to lead marches to end violence against women, created bi-national preschools to bring together Israelis and Palestinians before stereotypes can set in, and worked with the Harvard Negotiation Project, Burnett said.

The bonds the young women formed in the most recent cohort of young leaders have been tested by the recent outbreak of war. One girl lost a father, while others have lost friends or had friends kidnapped, said Noa Ma鈥檃yan, Jewish Israeli co-director.

鈥淲hat we thought is to bring them together, but it was too much for them,鈥� Ma鈥檃yan said in an interview with the Journal via Zoom.

The younger girls began to fight on social media, comparing the painful things they were going through.

鈥淭hey almost forget all the dialogue and the compassionate ways of listening and talking. It was too much for them, and I understand,鈥� Ma鈥檃yan said. 鈥淎nd you can see that for the campers who just came out from camp, the younger, the youngest, it is much more difficult than the more grown-up (alumnae).鈥�

So Tomorrow鈥檚 Women created two separate groups of Israeli and Palestinian girls to give them space to talk through the difficult experiences they were going through. The nonprofit uses the same model during the camp experience, letting the girls talk and vent in separate groups first before coming into dialogue.

鈥淧eople get very polarized,鈥� Burnett said. 鈥淭hink about our own major events here, OK to show empathy to the other side and to remind them of the skills that they learned with us, and then to give opportunities for them to come back together.鈥�

In those separate groups, the girls have talked about how they know and love the other group of girls, Ma鈥檃yan said. In the groups, the girls also are being taught how to deal with trauma in their bodies.

Living through war while working in peacebuilding is difficult.

鈥淏eing in that area, the area in the middle between both sides, listening to both sides and living with the sadness and the pain of both sides is very difficult,鈥� Abuarqoub said. 鈥淎t the same time, it鈥檚 one of the things that fuels the faith that we have in what we are doing now.鈥�

Images of violence are ever-present in the Mideast conflict and the sounds of rockets overhead have become normal.

鈥淚f you ask me how I am today,鈥� Ma鈥檃yan said, 鈥淚鈥檓 exhausted.鈥�

Ma鈥檃yan hears rockets and fighting from where she lives on the Lebanese border. 鈥淭he new normal way of living is to try to recognize from the bombs which is from there to here and which is from here to there,鈥� she said.

Ma鈥檃yan has a shelter in her home, so her daughter, grandchildren and sister are all staying with her.

Abuarqoub has five of her own children 鈥� all grown-ups.

鈥淎s a mother, you have to take care of them and you have to keep the balance in there, and to bring them to their senses again, back to their senses,鈥� she said. She also listens to the frustrations of the teen girls she works with.

鈥淵ou have to listen to them, to their frustration, to their sadness, to their desperate statements about what are we talking about? What future do we have?鈥�

Thursday morning, one of Abuarqoub鈥檚 friends called to say that she and her husband had been drafted into the Israeli military.

鈥淎nd I could hear in her voice how her heart is torn apart,鈥� Abuarqoub said. 鈥淎nd she was telling me how it is difficult for her to think of my kids and her kids under the current situation. And on the same day, today also, we have to go to be with one of my colleagues whose brother along with his wife and three children were killed last night.鈥�

Some of the Israeli girls who participated in Tomorrow鈥檚 Women also reached out to her, sending messages about how it was difficult for them to have conversations with their Palestinian friends.

鈥淯nder the current circumstances, for Israeli girls to reach out to a Palestinian facilitator 鈥� for me that was something that the credit for that goes to the program,鈥� she said.

Tomorrow鈥檚 Women is apolitical, but not neutral, Burnett said.

鈥淥ur goal is not to influence American politicians or Israeli politicians or Palestinian politicians. And we鈥檙e not neutral,鈥� Burnett said. 鈥淲e very much recognize that there is an occupation going on, and that it鈥檚 asymmetrical 鈥� that there鈥檚 one side that has more military might than the other and that one has more control over the other and that creates an asymmetrical dynamic. We鈥檙e not neutral about human rights. We鈥檙e not neutral about what a just peace looks like. And we鈥檙e not neutral about who we believe should be in charge: young women and women.鈥�

While the 20-year-old nonprofit has paused in-person programs before in times of conflict 鈥� the last time was in 2021 鈥� this moment is above and beyond what it has seen before, Burnett said.

鈥淭his is going to change the field of peacebuilding forever. I hope it changes it for the good. But it鈥檚 certainly going to change the landscape,鈥� Burnett said.

Two weeks ago before the war started, Tomorrow鈥檚 Women had an event for the 2022 campers in Tel Aviv.

鈥淲e had permits for the girls from the West Bank,鈥� Ma鈥檃yan said. 鈥淚t was so nice to see them together, hugging, you know, when they finally met each other after a few months that they didn鈥檛.鈥�

When the donor who supported the event saw the hugging, they told Ma鈥檃yan that they understood what the donations were for.