From Seattle-South African novelist Alan Paton, elderly and nearly blind, spoke against apartheid 30 years ago at Seattle’s St. Mark’s Cathedral. The author of “Cry the Beloved Country” in a sad session with Seattle Post-Intelligencer editors, saw bloody racial confrontation as the only future path.
But the miraculous evolution of her native South Africa gives hope of a way about for a grieving Israeli mother named Robi Damelin, who saw her soldier-scholar son shot to death by a sniper while on duty with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
“I think I cannot give up hope, I live there: I believe in the possibility of people to change. Yes, I am an optimist. Miracles happen,” Damelin told a Sunday forum at St. Mark’s.
Damelin was here with Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian father whose 10-year-old daughter was killed by an IDF soldier. They are active in Parents Circle-Family Forum, a grassroots movement of Palestinians and Israelis pressing for a mutual understanding that will bring peace after conflict that has lasted 65 years.
More here-
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/10/14/peace-in-palestine-miracles-happen/
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