In the film Promises it talks about different conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis. Later in the movie they each one of the kids and ask if they ever want to meet people on the other side. Of course some Palestinians and Israelis live very close together and sometimes make conversation but it has never really spawned into a friendship. One of the interviewers asked a boy named Mahmoud if he would ever really want to meet a Jew. Of course in instinct he says no. This is because he has heard horrible things about Jews assumes they’re brutal killers. Being a Jew myself I can see why he would think that; way back in the early 1900s we didn’t have the best reputation. Later in the interview Mahmoud is informed that this who was interviewing him is actually a Jew himself. He has been told that Jews are terrible and can’t be trusted yet this man he actually likes is one himself; and he rethinks his answer. Of course other children that have been interviewed willing decided that they would like to meet Palestinians and some Palestinians want to meet Jews but in the end some just can’t be convinced that they want to meet the other side. If you were Jew or Palestinian would you want to meet the other side?
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