Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her | Cleveland Jewish News All of the peace-building groups supported through the MEPPA fund have had their grants canceled amid the Trump administration’s slashing of USAID, the United States’ civilian foreign aid agency, and it’s unclear whether restoring them … Continue reading Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her | Cleveland Jewish News

We must create programs where Israeli studies and Palestinian studies are explored in entwined fashion, to reflect the lived experience of people on the ground.

Last year I attended a presentation in Palo Alto by two bereaved mothers, one Palestinian, the other Israeli. Each had lost a child in the many years of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Israeli Maoz Inon and Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah, who attended the “Arena of Peace” event in the northern Italian city of Verona in May 2024, where they received the personal embrace and the support of Pope Francis, speak of their shared vision of peace.

Our statesmen often resemble children squabbling so fiercely over a resource that they destroy it. There is another way