Hellow you Jews, Palestinians and Arabians,

your old game of stealing each other has just brought suffering to all of
you.
Look at those doing really good jobs as this woman at the text bellow.
Kindly
Lino
Lino Guedes Pires
www.jornalexpress.com.br/folhaverde
----- Original Message -----
From: "Libby & Len Traubman" <LTraubman@...>
To: <Recipient list suppressed>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 12:13 AM
Subject: Mother's Day "Mom" for Palestinian, Israeli teen girl campers


A Mother for the Public Peace Process

Mother's Day 2002 reveals a model "mom" for Palestinian and Israeli
teenage girls.
Melodye Feldman (BBfPeace@...) in Denver, Colorado has shepherded
hundreds of the Middle East youth to the BUILDING BRIDGES FOR PEACE summer
camps in the U.S. since the early 1990s. It is on the Web at:
http://buildingpeace.com/
The women, ages 14-18, have come from Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza
for 21-day intensive communication workshops in the mountains of
Colorado. They return home and sustain their relationships as well as they
can.
Melodye is devoted to the young women and spends a large part of her
life encouraging them and helping them sustain their communication with one
another.
Will the present violence and darkness deter Melodye and the young
women from doing what must be done -- healing the "big disconnect" and
building human relationships? No!
Melodye is determined to convene BUILDING BRIDGES FOR PEACE, as well
as continue her work supporting FACE TO FACE/FAITH TO FAITH with the Auburn
Theological Seminary which brings together youth from the Middle East as
well as other nations in conflict.
Here is today's e-mail from Melodye -- a "mother" to Palestinian and
Israeli young women, equally. With nothing less than a mother's love.

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From: <Melodye Feldman> BBfPeace@...
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:51:39 EDT

I'm doing well and lots is going on here.
We are preparing for our Face to Face program for this summer in New
York.
And when I thought it impossible to have a Building Bridges program
this summer, the kids are proving me wrong.
Emails from participants in Jenin, Ramallah, Jerusalem and so forth
are begging to have another program.
So, I am seeing what we can do.
I have two people in New York who have offered a "home" they own
(more like a mansion) as a place for the girls to be housed while here, as
well as helping with finding funders to "adopt" a girl to cover costs.
In times when it seems so dark, I can see what eight years of effort
can bring about.
For these participants who have been through our program, it is a
little light.
One of the girls in Jenin writes that "every day I am getting more
comfortable with the decision I have made, and that is the way of peace. I
just need your support."
Today there is a big demonstration in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, and
our girls are there in force today. They called this morning before they
left Jerusalem.
And, I have been asked to write a book about the program, using the
girls voices and explaining the building blocks for building peaceful
communities. We have 13 publishers interested in the book.
Anything to get the word out that there is a lot going on to promote
peace.
Anything to save the next generation.

With love,
Melodye