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nfazed by the history
between their two people,
a Palestinian and an Israeli
teen are using their inter-
action to build for a better future.
Shira Kaplan, a 15-year-old Israeli
from Herzliya, and 16-year-old
Palestinian Christian Adham
Rishmawi from Beit-Sahour ended
their week-long tour of the United.
States in metro Detroit on Monday,
speaking to students at the
International Academy in Bloomfield
Hills and.Livonia's Franklin High
School about their friendship and
how the resolution signed last Friday
by their nation's leaders affects it.
Kaplan grew up knowing very lit-
tle about Palestinians. "I knew what
I saw on TV and the only impression
I had was bad. I never got to know
one personally to know they weren't
all bad."
Rishmawi's father was arrested in
1987 during the Intifada, for leading
a non-violent protest against taxa-
tion.
"I only saw soldiers with guns," he
said. "I grew up in an environment
where Israel was the enemy. I was
amazed to meet Jews that didn't have
radical thinking."
Rishmawi and Kaplan met at the
Seeds of Peace camp in Maine, orga-
U
Above: Adham Rishmawi and Shira
Kaplan kick off their night with pizza.
Top: Jewish and Arab teens listen to
speakers at a Seeds of Peace event in
Southfield.
nized by journalist John Wallach for
teenagers living in "conflict regions," -lb
mainly in the Middle East. The two
attended the camp in the summers of
1997 and 1998.
Before the camp, Kaplan "never
had contact with Arabs. It was a spe-
cial experience. Life is different since
then because it opened up another
world."
Neither had spoken to family at
home, which they returned to on
Tuesday, since Israeli Binyamin
Netanyahu and Palestinian leader
Yassir Arafat signed their peace
accord. However, both teens saw it as
a light at the end of the tunnel.
"Seeing Arafat and Netanyahu sit-
ting together gives hope," Rishmawi
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