Tanya Mosley

But Mahmoud, the book is honest that peace for you has to also come with accountability.

You write that as far as you were concerned, Hamas and the Israeli government are two sides of the same coin.

Both are accountable for your parents' deaths.

Take me inside that belief.

Our guests today are Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarra and Israeli entrepreneur and peace activist Mahmoud Inan.

Their new book is The Future is Peace.

We'll be right back after a short break.

I'm Tanya Mosley, and this is Fresh Air.

One of the things that I was really astounded by were the education gaps, the information gaps that both of you had growing up in such close proximity to each other.

Ma'uz, growing up near the Gaza border, there were enormous gaps in what you knew about Palestinian history.

When did you start to understand what you had not been taught?

Let's take a short break.

My guests are Aziz Abu Sarra and Mahouz Inan.

Their new book is called The Future is Peace, A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.

We'll be right back.

This is Fresh Air.

I want to take a moment here because I want to talk about why this conflict is so intractable.

And we have to go back to 1948, which you write about in great detail in the book.

May 15th of that year is Israel's Independence Day.

And Aziz, I think it would be good for you maybe to talk briefly about what that date actually means for Palestinians.