Flowers Replace Rifles at a Unique Encounter Between Arab and Jewish Veterans

‘Humanity hasn’t yet found the way to avoid war, but when you meet the soldier who fought against you, you realize he’s just a person and you ask yourself, “What were we doing killing each other?”'

On June 18 and 19 of this year, 20 veterans, mostly-high ranking Jordanian and Israeli retired officers, met in Jerusalem and toured the sites of battles that pitted them against each other nearly half a century ago during the Six Day War. “We once looked at each other through the barrels of guns,” said one man. “Now we shook hands and exchanged war stories.”

The meeting was organized by the Israeli Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) and Jordan’s Amman Center for Peace and Development (ACPD), and funded by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation. 

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