The Israel Palestine Project

"a common history, an extraordinary future"

 VI.  TIPP Initiatives

 Initiative One (currently being fulfilled):  To create, or cause to be created, a common historical story that can be accepted by both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. The narrative, when finalized by the creation team, will be reviewed by Israeli and Palestinian historians for historical accuracy and acceptance by their respective mainstreams.  A review board of Israeli and Palestinian people will provide additional acceptance or corrections to our work and approve the final version.  Prominent Israeli and Palestinian personages will formally sign the completed document at a signing ceremony attended by international media, ensuring that this becomes a powerful and globally recognized event.  

We currently have a writer’s team composed of an Israeli major in the Israeli Army and a Palestinian journalist.  The other support members of the team are a writer living in London who is an editor of the narrative; a linguistics expert in Germany; an expert in Palestinian and Israeli popular views and a recorder of the ongoing dialogue, both living in Washington state; as well as Jack Berriault in California.  The narrative has been created through sometimes highly charged verbal encounters and it is truly remarkable and inspiring to witness a common narrative emerging that is acceptable to the two representatives of Israel and Palestine. 

The new narrative, projected to be about 20 pages, will be written as a popular, accessible story.  It will be published in English, Arabic and Hebrew, to be made easily available to the two mainstream populations.  It will also be published as an age appropriate edition for children in schools.  The narrative contains 24 sections. The first eight have been edited and approved by Israeli and Palestinian historians as historically accurate and acceptable by their respective mainstream populations. The remaining 16 sections exist as rough drafts and await final editing and approval.

We have also begun an outreach for reviewers outside of TIPP. At this time, we have a major Jewish organization, Tikkun, which is committed to providing a reviewer for the narrative when it is completed. 

Initiative Two:  To create strategic alliances with all other organizations committed to peace and human rights in Israel-Palestine.  Other peace organizations may be enlisted as well. The alliance will be for the purpose of promulgating the new narrative in the U.S. and Europe as well as Israel and Palestine.

Although we have not yet launched the out reach for this initiative, we have a major Jewish organization interested in taking this narrative to its constituency and beyond.

Initiative Three: To support and develop public dialogue in villages, towns and cities in Israel and Palestine, providing speakers presenting and moderating the discussion around the narrative.

Initiative Four: Placing this work in all appropriate schools in Israel and Palestine. 

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