In the class of Academic Leadership we discussed and watched a documentary about the current most known conflict in the world: The war between Palestine and Israel. The documentary, Promises, analyzed the certain situation and thoughts of seven children in the two different religious groups. They only live a few minutes away from each other but have no option to meet each other. Few of them do not even want to see children from the other religion because they got raised like that.
Israeli-American film makers went to Israel and Palestine to make a documentary about seven children: Faraj, Daniel, Yarko, Mahmoud, Sanabel, Shlomo and Moishe. The film makers talked to each kid and asked about its opinion over the whole war. From each kid came a different reaction which was very interesting. The children never thought about leaving their part where they were living and now the documentary group managed it to let the children meet each other and share the opinion. Some of them were very curious to see what was going to happen, other children like Shlomo, a Jewish kid, did not want to see children from Palestine and stayed in Israel.
When the children meet each other they were very excited and curious. They did not know what to say and what to do. After a little time they played, talked and ate with each other. They talked much about the war between their religions and communicated the right way. Without violence they made a conclusion together. They noticed that they have the same opinion about the whole war. "People on both sides die", was a very interesting sentence from Daniel. It is full of truth and wise. When you think about it, every human is equal, it does not matter in what religion we believe or what we do in live. We all were born and we all are going to die. That is why it is unnecessary to have a war over a land that sooner or later nobody is going to own anymore.
As concluding thought, I think that the children have the right to have the liberty of speech and different thoughts about the situation. Communication is the only way to correspond. There has to be no war to tell his opinion or get attention. Everybody should do it like those children. Meet each other and talk about each other problems so everybody can come to a concluding thought and live peacefully with each other.
