The document summarizes the Middle East Peace Initiative (MEPI) 2007 report. It discusses MEPI's efforts to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians, including findings that 76% of Israelis and Palestinians support a two-state solution. It outlines MEPI's activities in Europe from 2006-2007 and its strategy of supporting dialogue, service, and reconciliation projects. Several specific projects are described, as well as MEPI's "Prospects for Peace" program that exposes European delegates to both Palestinian and Israeli perspectives over 4 days.

1. Middle East Peace Initiative
(MEPI) 2007 Report.
The hope of all ages is a unified world of peace
Building a global culture of heart and a world of lasting peace.

2. Joint Israeli & Palestinian
Public Opinion
76% of Israelis and Palestinians favor a two-state solution
The OneVoice poll of 23,000 Palestinians
and 17,000 Israelis as reported in AP and
Ha‟aretz found that 76% on each side
endorsed the two-state concept - a
Palestinian state existing beside a Jewish
state, "each recognizing the other as such,
both democratic and respecting human
rights, including minority rights."
Sources: Associated Press and Ha’aretz, May 2004.

3. European MEPI Activity 2006-7
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March 11 - 17
May 15 - 24
August 21 - 25
October 20 – 25
November 12 - 17
December 4 – 9
January 11 – 16
February 9 – 14
April 10 - 15
Next MEPI dates
June 22 - 27
August 24 - 29
• MEPI has had 30
visits since 2002

4. MEPI Strategy
• Projects for Peace
Promote constructive dialogue, service and
reconciliation activities: Continue to
support them from Europe.
• Prospects for Peace – hearing both sides.
Neutral, balanced approach
• Bring Ambassadors For Peace from the
World to the Region to be involved in this
world level problem.

5. Projects for Peace
• Bereaved Family Forum
• Yair Dalal – charity concert
• Al-Tariq Youth Democracy
Education NGO
• One Voice
• Saving Lives Medical
project
• Martin Luther King III
• Interfaith Dialogue
• Bridge of Peace
Rami Elhanen and Ibrahim
Khalil
Bereaved Family Forum

6. Projects for Peace - Concert to Support
Bereaved Families Forum

7. Concert to Support
The Bereaved
Families Forum
Yair Dalal

8. Al- Tariq ‘The Way’ Palestinian Youth
Democracy Education NGO

9. November - Olivier Sayardi (France) meets
Former Knesset Member Moshe Raz
„All For Peace‟ Radio

10. Dr. Peter Patel
• Saving Lives
Medical Aid Agency
• Proposed Three
Medical Centres
Hebron, Nablus and
Nazareth
Without MEPI introducing his organisation to
the opinion leaders who are willing to make a
difference it could not have happened. “MEPI
has opened doors which we would not have
been able to open”

11. Saving Lives Planning Meeting

12. European MEPI delegates visit to
Caritas Baby Hospital Bethlehem June 2007

13. Visit to Gaza May 2005
Computer Training
Centre
Play Football Make Peace

14. Martin Luther King III Non Violent
Approach to Reduce Tensions

15. Hon. Walter Fauntroy Ex-Congressman
Marched with Rev Martin Luther King Jr

16. Inter-religious Dialogue

17. Bridge of Peace - Sisterhood

18. Prospects for Peace
• 1st Day Palestinian View
• 2nd Day Israeli View
• 3rd Day Sightseeing, Appointments and
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
• 4th Day Sightseeing or UN OCHA

19. Recognizing the Two Narratives
The Palestinian Narrative:
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Fear of Dispossession / 20th Century Jewish Immigration
Nakba of 1948
The 40-year Occupation (West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem)
Spiritual connection to the Holy Land
The Jewish Narrative:
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History of Jewish Persecution
Holocaust
Israel as Jewish ‘Safe Haven’
Spiritual connection to the Holy Land

20. 1st Day Activities
Continued
PASSIA – Palestinian Academic
Society for the Study of
International Affairs
Dr Hadi Abdul Mahdi
Meeting with Dr. Emil
Jarjoui & Mayors of
Beit Sahour, Beit Jala
and Bethlehem

21. Daehashie Palestinian Refugee
Camp, Bethlehem
Dr. Pietre
Beelaerts von
Blokland
Former
Minister of
Housing the
Netherlands

22. Meeting Prisoner’s Relatives

23. Meeting Pres. Mahmoud Abbas

24. Meeting Dr. Saeb Erekat
Chief Negotiator Palestinian Authority

25. UN Office of Civil and Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA)

26. David Hacham
Second Day Israeli View
Arab Affairs
Advisor to the
Minister of Defence

27. General Dani Yatom MK:
Deputy Leader of Labour
Party, ex Chief of Mossad.
Israeli View

28. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

29. Meeting former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak

30. Prospects for Peace Session
Dr Jonathan Spyer: Herzylia Institute Former foreign press spokesperson
in the office of the Prime Minister and Kamal Nawash US Palestinian

31. Nadia Hillou MK speaking at the Tel Aviv Conference

32. Prof. Moshe Amirav & Senator Alain Destexhe, Former
International Sec Gen of Medicines Sans Frontiers

33. October MEPI - Willem Van Eekelen former Dutch
Minister of Defence, Ehud Yaari Israel TV 2

34. An Israeli View
Achiva Eldar
Senior Columnist
- Haaretz
Newspaper

35. November MEPI
Celine Fremault MP (Belgium)
Mayor Herve Doyan (Belgium)
They were very concerned for communal peace in Belgium
after July-August war.

36. Walid Sadik former
Knesset Member
and Deputy
Speaker
Visit to UK

37. Bishop Riah Abu El Assal

38. Mayor Dorothy Thornhill,
of Watford UK
'There was no agenda to persuade me either way. The program
was very balanced and allowed me to meet and talk with a
range of people involved in the conflict. The program was an
eye opener and I am very grateful to UPF for taking me and
showing me the situation firsthand.'
'It was a fantastic opportunity to do something I had long
wanted to do. I had access to people from the very top and
those at the grassroots. I was able to see the conflict through
their eyes.'