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Cordon Corners 42775 Ford Rd Crossroads Ctr. 37130 Van Dyke Newberry Plaza 39800 14Mile Rd Ph: (313)981-7400 Ph: (810) 795.1600 ph: (810) 669-0330 An Oasis Of Peace On Leased Land JUDITH SUDILOVSKY T 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