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Although Bush made no formal
remarks, and the idling engine of
Marine One drowned most of the
Washington
conversation, the president and Mrs.
n a few hours, many of the 165
Bush waded into the crowd of
teenagers packed onto the south
campers and supporters at the edge of
the South Lawn.
steps of the White House would
be flying home to violence-
"The president spoke to a
torn lands, including Israel and the
number of kids individually,"
Palestinian Authority, India and
Jacob noted. "The kids spoke
Pakistan, the Balkans. But
to him about the program.
Wednesday morning, they serenad-
"I talked with Laura Bush,"
ed President George W Bush and
he said. "The president really
First Lady Laura Bush, singing "I
enjoyed it, and Laura Bush was
Joel Jacob
am a seed of peace — I am!"
grateful we came," Jacob said.
After 3 12 weeks at the Seeds of
"She thought it was an important
Peace summer camp in Otisfield,
program. I think it was very uplifting
Maine, the 13- to 16-year-olds capped
for them.
three days in Washington, D.C., with
Seeds of Peace participants got a
stops on Capitol Hill and at the White
similar reception the day before on
House. In green T-shirts bearing a dove
Capitol Hill, Jacob added. "Senators
and olive branch logo, following their
Carl Levin, [D-Mich.], Hillary
guitar-strumming accompanist, they
Clinton, [D-N.Y.], and Sam
could have been mistaken for a high
Brownback, [R-Kan.], and the ambas-
school choir seeing Bush, Vice President
sadors of India, Pakistan and Egypt
Dick Cheney and other senior officials
spoke to them. Levin spoke extensively
off to the G-7 economic summit.
to the kids. It was hard to tell who was
But many of these youngsters have
inspiring whom," he said.
lost fathers or brothers to religious,
Bryce Sandler, coordinator of Seeds of
ethnic and national violence, Seeds of
Peace's Sept. 10 gala in Detroit, said no
Peace founder John Wallach noted.
Detroit teenagers participated in the
The Israelis and Palestinians had a
first session, but he expected three or
special message for the president, said
four in the second session, which begins
Wallach, the former Hearst Newspapers
in Maine this weekend. Another 165
diplomatic correspondent. "We need
youths, including some from Greece
his involvement in the Middle East. He
and Turkey, are to attend as well.
can't just slough it off."
Also attending the first session were
In fact, the continuing fighting
teens from Jordan, Egypt and
between Palestinians and Israelis
Morocco.
directly affected this first session of the
Seeds of Peace hopes to influence
Seeds of Peace summer program. "We
future leaders in the strife-torn lands
had 40 Palestinian kids scheduled as a
the campers call home. Applicants are
delegation, but only a dozen came as
screened by their governments in
individuals," Wallach noted.
cooperation with Seeds of Peace, then
submit essays, undergo interviews and
answer questionnaires, Sandler said.
Arafat Disapproved
The eight-year-old program has more
Metro-Detroit businessman Joel Jacob,
than 2,000 alumni, primarily Israelis
an original backer of Seeds of Peace in
and Arabs, but that is broadening with
1993, said Yasser Arafat's Palestinian
the inclusion of teens from other
Authority, previously supportive of the
regions of conflict.
program, had disapproved this time.
Jacob got involved because "I felt it
"That's a really sad thing — with the
had great potential to bring the Arab
kids in the midst of violence," Jacob
and Jewish communities in Detroit
said. "But the [Israeli and Palestinian]
together." It also "was a way for us in
kids continued communicating, and
the Jewish community to take on a
they [the dozen Palestinians] wanted to
definite role in the peace process. We
come. We hope next session there will
say the kids are the future leaders, and
be many more."
they are." E
ERIC L. ROZENMAN
Special to the Jewish News
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