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An Oasis Of Peace
On Leased Land
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SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
he residents of Neve
Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam
(Oasis of Peace) are excit-
ed about the prospect of
peace. But for them the idea of
Arab and Jew living peacefully
side-by-side is nothing new.
This small communal village,
founded in 1978 and located
halfway between Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv on land leased from the
neighboring Latrun Monastery,
constitutes 22 families, or 100
people, some 50 percent of whom
are Arab.
"We share the general feeling
of the peace camp — that now the
real work begins," said Howard
Shippin, originally from England
and a resident of Neve Shalom
for the past nine years. "Now is
the time to build trust and a new
atmosphere (between Arab and
Jew) and that's what we are try-
ing to do here. We're trying to es-
tablish respect between the two
peoples. We want to be a model
for what can be possible in the
Middle East."
The original idea for the village
was to build a community where
members of the world's three ma-
jor religions — Judaism, Chris-
tianity and Islam — could come
together. But this went through
a transformation and the idea of
a shared Jewish-Arab village was
eventually born.
"Our idea was not easy to im-
plement," said French-born Ann
Le Meignen, one of the original
founders of Neve Shalom. "And
we could never have imagined
such success."
"I came to Neve Shalom in
1977 as a volunteer with some
other Jewish and Arab college
student," recalled the village's
current general secretary, Eyas
Shbeta, originally from the Arab
village of Tira near Netanyza.
"Together we cleaned up the site
and put up prefabricated houses.
After a week we felt something
begin to happen between us."
Initially, there were more Jews
than Arabs at Neve Shalom, said
Mr. Shbeta, as the concept of a
communal village is foreign to
Arabs and their close-knit soci-
ety discourages young couples
from leaving their villages and
families. "But over the past three
years more Arab families have
come to live here and the popu-
lation now is almost equally di-
vided between Arab and Jew," he
said.
The once barren hilltop is now
dotted with single-family homes
and green lawns; laundry hangs
out to dry and cars stand in the
driveways.
Each new family is allocated a
plot of land to build its own home.
The village provides the funding
for a standard house but addi-
tional rooms and changes in the
structure are privately financed.
The houses remain the proper-
ty of the village and each family
pays rent to the village.
A large part of Neve Shalon's
budget is donated by friends' or-
ganizations around the world,
mostly in Europe. Plans to build
additional homes for families on
the long waiting list must wait
until bank mortgages are ap-
proved. "We are always short of
money," said Mr. Shbeta, "and we
have no government help."
Neve Shalom also runs a guest
house, the School for Peace and
a youth hostel, all of which cre-
ate employment for some two-
thirds of the members.
Run like a communal village,
elections for the general secretary
and committee members are held
annually, and all members par-
ticipate in discussions on major
issues.
Most residents are profession-
al couples in their late 30s and
early 40s with young children. To
some they may seem like aging
hippies, with their ideas of living
together in peace and harmony,
but, says Michal Zak, director of
the School for Peace, they are
very realistic in their goals.
"We are not hippies," she said.
"It's true that we are tying to
build something new here, but
we are not just about 'love and
peace.' We talk more about con-
flict and coexistence and not
`brotherly love.' I've come here to
build something that I believe in
and create a model of equality.
My two daughters were born
here. My whole life is here."
The School for Peace has
brought together over 13,000
Arab and Jewish students at its
seminars on coexistence. As the
Jewish students don't speak Ara-
bic, the seminars are conducted
in Hebrew. At first, said Ms. Zak,
the Jewish teens dominate the
discussions, but slowly, with the
help of the school staff, there is a
change in the group dynamics.
`The Arab students become more
confident and assertive, and the
Jewish students fund themselves
on unfamiliar ground. They also
begin to understand what it's like
to be a minority. Our goal is not
that they become friends but that
they take back (home) what
they've learned here."
The School for Peace also con-
ducts seminars for foreign groups
on conflict resolution, separate