In this one, two of our staff members in San Francisco, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb and Noura Khouri, talk about why they work together to bring peace to Israel and Palestine and about how they would define peace.
Thank you to William Baptist III for helping produce this video.
Peace isn’t just the absence of war. It’s the presence of an adequate, secure supply of food and clean water. It’s having skills to earn a livelihood – and the freedom to do so. It’s learning to work with your former enemies and learning the skills that lead to resolving conflicts rather than escalating them.
The American Friends Service Committee works for peace every day in small ways. We show young men and women here in the United States honorable alternatives to military service. We provide food to at-risk Palestinian children and fuel to run power generators at hospitals in Gaza. In Jordan, we and our partners fit severely injured Iraqis with artificial limbs that give them hope for a better life. Five years after the devastating tsunami in Indonesia, our staff members are still there. We’re still working in Aceh, a region torn by civil war even before the tsunami struck.
Yes, we’re asking for donations so we can raise $1.9 million, the amount the U.S. government spent on the military EVERY MINUTE in 2008.
To us, it’s a big sum. We think it is to you, too. But it’s a drop in the bucket for the military.
William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, said, “Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
Help us make converts. Watch our videos, send them to your friends, and please, please donate to One Minute for Peace.
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