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Seeds of Peace veteran offers
perspective on Mideast conflict
in coming-of-age memoir.

Kevin Schwartz

Special to the Jewish News

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Wide Perspective

In an effort to provide the
reader with a breadth of perspec-
he primary focus of
tive, Miller spoke with one young
Jennifer Miller's Inheriting
person from each of the major
the Holy Land: An
constituencies in the Middle
American's Search for Hope in the
East. There's Omri, an Israeli Jew;
Middle East (Ballantine Books;
Muhammad, a Palestinian from
$24.95) is a collection of inter-
Jerusalem; and Yara, an Arab-
views of Israeli and Palestinian
Israeli, to name a few.
youth, ranging from teenagers to
Miller frequently challenges
20-somethings. The interviewees
her subjects to think beyond
are predominantly those who
their ingrained beliefs and cap-
attended Seeds of Peace, a con-
tures the youths' struggling con-
flict-resolution camp in Maine
tradictions, uncertainties and
not-so-fully-tested
truths
about their pres-
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and. otii, tiottrxrrts
ent and future and,
with it, the possibility
for hope.
Interspersed with
these perspectives from
Israeli and Palestinian
youth are briefer
encounters with politi-
cal leaders, state offi-
cials and educators. In
these interviews,
Miller's focus is on the
opportunities, educa-
tion
and development
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of youth in the region.
Though the narrative
floats from the young
to their aging states-
men and back again,
the journey is unmis-
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takably Miller's own.
Her main framework
for analysis and judg-
Jennifer Miller
ment is not, say, negoti-
ating an end to the
conflict, but rather her identity
that brings together, among oth-
itself: white, female, American,
ers, Israeli and Palestinian
Jewish, Seeds of Peace graduate
teenagers to participate in co-
and daughter of Aaron D. Miller,
existent activities. Miller was a
a former U.S. State Departinent
camper and later a counselor
negotiator at the Oslo and Camp
there.
David peace summits.
Working at Seeds of Peace for
It is a personal lens through
numerous summers, I first met
which she analyzes and observes
Miller there in 2000, and recently all, interrupting dialogue with an
interviewed her about her new
inner monologue full of ques-
book.

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