Avi Meyerstein, at The Blogs

Apr 20, 2023, 6:27 AM

The Kids in Ardee: Echoes in Israel of Biden’s 1986 Vote

I hope one of President Biden’s stops in Ireland last week stands out for him. On Wednesday night, he visited the DeeHub youth empowerment center in Ardee, in the border county of Louth. There he came face-to-face with kids...

Oct 16, 2022, 8:52 AM

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In a tense Jerusalem, an inside look at the city’s youth movement for peace

Israeli and Palestinian youth tackle issues big and small together in Jerusalem. (courtesy, Kids4Peace)

On an organization that equips young Israelis and Palestinians to build trust and confront a generational conflict together

Sep 22, 2022, 9:16 AM

One year in, how a US law is disrupting the status quo

A workshop at the 2022 ALLMEP regional conference, where 450 NGO leaders, government officials, diplomats and philanthropists met to discuss peacebuilding strategies. Source: Alliance for Middle East Peace

In recent days and weeks, we've seen gun battles in the streets, nightly raids, terror attacks, and the "highest in years" death toll in the West Bank. For three days this summer, the skies once again filled with drones,...

Mar 24, 2022, 11:26 AM

At workshops around region, NGOs prepare to scale

NGOs and ALLMEP staff meet in Jaffa for a workshop to plan scaling up programs as new U.S. funding comes online.

When U.S. officials announced at the beginning of September that a new quarter-billion dollar fund for Israeli-Palestinian partnerships would start accepting project proposals immediately, hundreds of non-governmental organizations working in the field had to organize quickly. The announcement marked...

Nov 2, 2021, 11:57 AM

Jeers or cheers? Where the process failed Rabin

This year’s commemoration of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in Israel reminded me of an event I attended in Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem while visiting Israel in 1995, just a few months before Rabin’s death. I don’t even remember what the event...

Jun 10, 2021, 8:16 PM

What only Jill Biden can bring to the G7

First Lady Jill Biden on travel. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)

At some point during this weekend's G7 Summit in Cornwall, England, the gathered leaders will surely discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which forced itself to the fore with last month’s tragic violence. Much of the discussion will be frustratingly familiar:...

May 26, 2021, 6:41 AM

What Congress and Samantha Power should discuss Thursday

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power toured the Max Rayne Bilingual Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem, where she visited the first-grade classroom targeted by arsonists in November 2014 and engaged with students and faculty Monday, February 15, 2016.

On Thursday, USAID Administrator Samantha Power will be the first among the Biden foreign policy team to testify before Congress since a ceasefire quieted the most brutal violence between Israelis and Palestinians in years. The hearing, focused on USAID’s...

Oct 22, 2018, 4:10 AM

Finally learning from Oslo and Rabin

With the adjacent anniversaries of the Oslo Accords and of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, not enough has been said about what links these two events. Their common theme is trust, and its fundamental role in peacemaking. When Rabin...

Mar 13, 2018, 7:23 AM

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Israelis and Palestinians on Capitol Hill: The struggle for peace is underway

Women from the 'Women Wage Peace' movement and Palestinians take part in a march near the Jordan River, in the West Bank on Oct 8, 2017. (Flash90)

Israelis and Palestinians urged US policymakers to set up a global fund to support the many co-existence efforts

Oct 8, 2015, 8:17 AM

Us vs. Them

Parents driving their kids home are gunned down in front of their young children. A family sleeping peacefully at night is burned alive in their beds. Cars are pelted by rocks. People walking in the street scan for threats....

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Avi Meyerstein is the founder and president of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), the coalition of 170 NGOs building people-to-people cooperation and partnerships between Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. The views expressed are his own.

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