New Brunswick, NJ – About a dozen women students, including a handful of Muslims and Jews, are living together at Rutgers University as they work toward ideals that have seemed out of reach for years in the Middle East: peace and understanding.
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The new Middle East Coexistence House was created for students to spend enough time together to bridge their differences and explore solutions to an age-old conflict.
“When you’re brushing your teeth next to someone every morning, you just can’t hate them,” said Danielle Josephs, 21, a senior political science and Middle Eastern studies major from Teaneck who lives in the dorm.
The Middle East Coexistence House is the newest addition to the Global Village and opened its doors in fall 2006. The mission of the house is to promote women’s involvement in international conflict negotiation and resolution and to encourage further understanding and coexistence between Jewish, Muslim and Christian women at Rutgers University. The diversity of the residents truly fulfills the Middle East Coexistence House’s goal to create a “hands on experience in coexistence.” The dedication ceremony will be held on October 9th at 4:30 p.m. That’s pretty much all it says there and we know that since it is only and experiment, that is where it ends. We know that from experience—no need to experiment.
Typical idiotic idealistic colleagiate experience. You would be very hard pressed to find a conservative minded (ie: non-liberal) on any campus and uch un vey if anyone found out, your life would be at stake.
Anons at 1:11 and 2:32 – I don’t know how to respond to such ignorance. What do you suggest? Do you even want peace?
Go to this website and read about the women taking part in this experiment:
http://www.douglass.rutgers.edu/news/?newsid=215
Read what they have to say about comments like yours. Maybe you’ll learn something.
to 2:32. i hope you are not speaking from personal experience, that you have within you intractable hate.
It’s a complete waste of time. Nice ideals and all but we’ve lived among, alongside, side by side, surrounded by, together, and every other which way with these (and other) people at different times in history and current events. The virulent hatred is still there. It just lays dormant for a while, that’s all.
baloney, nobody learns from history. You can be next door neigbors for 20 years and then become naxis and kill them. It already happened.