Pontea's Final Thoughts on Peace Summit

I believe that there is no need for violence; our words are powerful enough. We are the next generation. We can't say the old guys in power will handle this issue. We kids as a community need to come together and use our words to make a peace plan. I feel that people living in Israel are labeled as either a Jew or an Arab, but really on the inside we are the same. We are all humans, we all have hearts, and just because we live in different places and believe in different things doesn't mean that we shouldn't be able to visit each other and have a true friendship. This topic is somewhat similar to the segregation topic, because the Jews were segregated from so many countries for so many years that they felt they had to segregate the Arabs. That is what they did and have continued to do. However, the segregation was a topic that was overcame by Martin Luther King, and it's time to overcome this topic in Israel/Palestine. We need a Martin Luther King to save us and give us our rights, or a group of people that are ready to take on the task to make a peace plan.

This picture was taken in Israel in a Hand in Hand school, a place where both Israeli and Palestinian kids get an education and build friendships together.