Maoz Inon

And they both are sharing their own pain, but also encouraging us

to continue on our journey, on our journey to pursuit justice and peace.

And so we go day after day meeting many people, sharing stories from the history, from the biblical time, mythology, and meeting the people on the ground.

And our people on the ground are transforming revenge into reconciliation, despair into hope, and trauma into healing.

So how is this, you know, when you are outside of, I know my reaction to you guys.

So we are feeling supported, appreciated than ever in our life before.

And when we met Pope Francis just after the event at the Arena de Pacha in Verona, an amazing out-of-body experience meeting the Pope.

And the moment it ended, my aunts, my father, sister, called me, saying that they were crying in front of the TV, watching us embracing with Pope Francis.

And at the end of the month, April 30th, we're going to do a peace summit.

In Tel Aviv, where thousands, maybe even more, Israelis and Palestinians will gather together, will prove that dialogue is already happening, that reconciliation is a grassroots process that we start investing within, and that the future is, of course, peace.

Exactly.

Those who believe that bombs will bring quiet, that war will defend, and that war will bring security, they are the naive.

We are here.

We are the pragmatists.

We are the voice of reason, and we are those who learn from history that the only way to reach a sustainable peace and justice is only through dialogue, only through looking to the other side in the eye.

start feeling his pain, start listening to his trauma, to his challenges, acknowledging them, not necessarily agree, but acknowledging and recognize his suffering, his pain, and then start working together to create hope.

Israel and Egypt, Israel and Germany.

Today, we are marking the Holocaust Day in Israel.

holocaust day but only seven years after the holocaust right the reconciliation agreement between israel and germany was accomplished and signed no this can be done it can be done it will be done and and this journey that you take and i urge everybody uh to get this book because it is a beautiful travelogue and the setting it's so interesting because it is in the holy land and so

And I want to give you as the last word, I know you have a sort of poem that you carry with you that you believe.