“I am sitting with international martial arts masters from Jordan, Japan, Senegal, and Israel and with the local Bedouin karate club. After two exhausting days of sweating and sharing both graceful movements and brutal techniques used for self-defense and confidence building between people, I see that we can win the battle for the hearts and minds of Arab, Christian, Muslim and Jewish children living in this conflict zone.”
There's an excellent article now online at the Times of Israel written by PeaceCamp Initiative partner Danny Hakim - 7th dan and founder of Budo for Peace.
Read it here: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-and-arabs-fighting-the-good-fight/