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		<title>By: My farewell to mepeace! &#171; Alices Wonderings</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20677</link>
		<dc:creator>My farewell to mepeace! &#171; Alices Wonderings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] me - but as I fulfilled his conditions only partly (he requested that I also delete this post on Mideast Youth and with it all the 54 comments attached to it - which I didn&#8217;t do&#8230;) he banned me from [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] me &#8211; but as I fulfilled his conditions only partly (he requested that I also delete this post on Mideast Youth and with it all the 54 comments attached to it &#8211; which I didn&#8217;t do&#8230;) he banned me from [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Kawthar (Sudan)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20676</link>
		<dc:creator>Kawthar (Sudan)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been following this thread for a while, concerned that the standard of discussion would fall below what we at Mideast Youth have set for ourselves.

Everyone has stated her/his opinion clearly, and it is high time we agreed to disagree.

We all share a commitment to peace in the Middle East, so let us spend the energy in pursuits that will actually work towards that.

The thread is now closed for comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been following this thread for a while, concerned that the standard of discussion would fall below what we at Mideast Youth have set for ourselves.</p>
<p>Everyone has stated her/his opinion clearly, and it is high time we agreed to disagree.</p>
<p>We all share a commitment to peace in the Middle East, so let us spend the energy in pursuits that will actually work towards that.</p>
<p>The thread is now closed for comments.</p>
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		<title>By: Eva (Israel)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20675</link>
		<dc:creator>Eva (Israel)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By the way...
Donna just left as well. Donna was a very valued and appreciated member.
She too was hurt, and Eyal didn&#039;t defend her. She was hurt in her feelings as an Arab and a Muslim by what is allowed to say on this site...
It&#039;s not only me - you know?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way&#8230;<br />
Donna just left as well. Donna was a very valued and appreciated member.<br />
She too was hurt, and Eyal didn&#8217;t defend her. She was hurt in her feelings as an Arab and a Muslim by what is allowed to say on this site&#8230;<br />
It&#8217;s not only me &#8211; you know?</p>
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		<title>By: Eva (Israel)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20674</link>
		<dc:creator>Eva (Israel)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Paul,

I&#039;m sorry to contradict you - but I didn&#039;t delete my second profile, and a lot of &quot;truth&quot; can be seen in the discussions I participated in.
Paul... denial doesn&#039;t help. Truth will come back at you, anyway! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paul,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry to contradict you &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t delete my second profile, and a lot of &#8220;truth&#8221; can be seen in the discussions I participated in.<br />
Paul&#8230; denial doesn&#8217;t help. Truth will come back at you, anyway! <img src='http://www.mideastyouth.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Esra'a (Bahrain)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20673</link>
		<dc:creator>Esra'a (Bahrain)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Had Eva not deleted her profile, you’d all be able to see that that assertion was and is just plain not true.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Then please enlighten us all and do tell who was Eva spreading propaganda on behalf of. The Palestinians? What justifies you treating another member in such a deplorable manner?

This has truly been a waste of time. The folks at mepeace have launched an advertisement campaign without properly refuting any of the arguments, again it convinces me that it cares more about its membership than its content. A good platform strictly relies on the latter.

If I wanted to hear people shout obscenities at one another, I will be sure to visit you guys again. But remember, this is the style of the peacemakers of yesterday. Today, there are higher standards!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Had Eva not deleted her profile, you’d all be able to see that that assertion was and is just plain not true.</p></blockquote>
<p>Then please enlighten us all and do tell who was Eva spreading propaganda on behalf of. The Palestinians? What justifies you treating another member in such a deplorable manner?</p>
<p>This has truly been a waste of time. The folks at mepeace have launched an advertisement campaign without properly refuting any of the arguments, again it convinces me that it cares more about its membership than its content. A good platform strictly relies on the latter.</p>
<p>If I wanted to hear people shout obscenities at one another, I will be sure to visit you guys again. But remember, this is the style of the peacemakers of yesterday. Today, there are higher standards!</p>
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		<title>By: Paul (The dreadful)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20672</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul (The dreadful)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Esra&#039;a (Bahrain) lamented that I was overly critical of Eva on mepeace.org simply &lt;blockquote&gt;For having a different opinion!&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Had Eva not deleted her profile, you&#039;d all be able to see that that assertion was and is just plain not true.

Ray wrote:
&lt;blockquote&gt;I’ll give MEPeace.org one more chance … but it scared me off before
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I hope that all here really do that, and that you all make a constructive contribution to mepeace.org.

Be well...
  Paul RETI
  Sydney OZ

Please remember that friends (like here) need not make peace, current enemies do.  Doing that is not easy and simply inciteful contributions and emotional blackmail do not help increase understanding of the other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Esra&#8217;a (Bahrain) lamented that I was overly critical of Eva on mepeace.org simply<br />
<blockquote>For having a different opinion!</p></blockquote>
<p>Had Eva not deleted her profile, you&#8217;d all be able to see that that assertion was and is just plain not true.</p>
<p>Ray wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>I’ll give MEPeace.org one more chance … but it scared me off before
</p></blockquote>
<p>I hope that all here really do that, and that you all make a constructive contribution to mepeace.org.</p>
<p>Be well&#8230;<br />
  Paul RETI<br />
  Sydney OZ</p>
<p>Please remember that friends (like here) need not make peace, current enemies do.  Doing that is not easy and simply inciteful contributions and emotional blackmail do not help increase understanding of the other.</p>
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		<title>By: Esra'a (Bahrain)</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20671</link>
		<dc:creator>Esra'a (Bahrain)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know, I&#039;ve yet to see really constructive comments from the &quot;mepeace founders&quot; other than this thread being used as &lt;strong&gt;an advertisement for the site!&lt;/strong&gt; It almost violates our spam policy.

&lt;blockquote&gt;mepeace.org is a community worth joining.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I strongly disagree - if you are calling someone who has verbally abused another an &quot;open minded peacemaker,&quot; like Paul calling Eva a &quot;myopic propgandist&quot; and &quot;disruptive and manipulative wrecker!&quot;

How in the world is this kind of place worth joining if such abuse exists on a seemingly large scale with you doing absolutely nothing about it, and in fact, calling such insulting users &quot;peacemakers&quot; who make the community more worthwhile?

Please, if you have a comment to wite, write it, and support your argument by stating how you have taken responsibility for this abuse. However, if you are going to do nothing but post links to the site, please stop! Posting a comment solely to promote another website is, by definition, spam.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, I&#8217;ve yet to see really constructive comments from the &#8220;mepeace founders&#8221; other than this thread being used as <strong>an advertisement for the site!</strong> It almost violates our spam policy.</p>
<blockquote><p>mepeace.org is a community worth joining.</p></blockquote>
<p>I strongly disagree &#8211; if you are calling someone who has verbally abused another an &#8220;open minded peacemaker,&#8221; like Paul calling Eva a &#8220;myopic propgandist&#8221; and &#8220;disruptive and manipulative wrecker!&#8221;</p>
<p>How in the world is this kind of place worth joining if such abuse exists on a seemingly large scale with you doing absolutely nothing about it, and in fact, calling such insulting users &#8220;peacemakers&#8221; who make the community more worthwhile?</p>
<p>Please, if you have a comment to wite, write it, and support your argument by stating how you have taken responsibility for this abuse. However, if you are going to do nothing but post links to the site, please stop! Posting a comment solely to promote another website is, by definition, spam.</p>
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		<title>By: Eyal Raviv</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20670</link>
		<dc:creator>Eyal Raviv</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hiba is right.
&lt;blockquote&gt;There could be on mepeace.org many people with many different views&lt;/blockquote&gt;
This is because I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://mepeace.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mepeace.org&lt;/a&gt; as a platform for peacemakers. You bring the content. As a community with hundreds of peacemakers, sometimes people don&#039;t agree. As Hiba wrote:
&lt;blockquote&gt;this platform is an opened one for everybody.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Because of open-minded peacemakers like Hiba, Neri, Donna, Paul and Nissim &lt;a href=&quot;http://mepeace.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mepeace.org&lt;/a&gt; is a community worth joining.

I would not minimize the contribution of those who have joined. By joining a community of peacemakers you contribute more than by criticizing from the outside. Join and be a peacemaker on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mepeace.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mepeace.org&lt;/a&gt;.

Eyal Raviv
Founder - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mepeace.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mepeace&lt;/a&gt;
eyalpeace@gmail.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hiba is right.</p>
<blockquote><p>There could be on mepeace.org many people with many different views</p></blockquote>
<p>This is because I created <a href="http://mepeace.org" rel="nofollow">mepeace.org</a> as a platform for peacemakers. You bring the content. As a community with hundreds of peacemakers, sometimes people don&#8217;t agree. As Hiba wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>this platform is an opened one for everybody.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because of open-minded peacemakers like Hiba, Neri, Donna, Paul and Nissim <a href="http://mepeace.org" rel="nofollow">mepeace.org</a> is a community worth joining.</p>
<p>I would not minimize the contribution of those who have joined. By joining a community of peacemakers you contribute more than by criticizing from the outside. Join and be a peacemaker on <a href="http://mepeace.org" rel="nofollow">mepeace.org</a>.</p>
<p>Eyal Raviv<br />
Founder &#8211; <a href="http://mepeace.org" rel="nofollow">mepeace</a><br />
<a href="mailto:eyalpeace@gmail.com">eyalpeace@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Hiba</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20669</link>
		<dc:creator>Hiba</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a Palestinian and a member of mepeace.org, for a person who enters mepeace.org for the first time, he will find it a bit difficult for him to get in the discussions, but after following up and participating a few times, the person get to know some active members and get used to the general climate there.

There could be on mepeace.org many people with many different views about the two sides and the conflict as a whole, for me personally I succeeded in making too many friends from different places with totally different view, simply because we considered the term of respect and interaction between us. Aggressiveness could happen sometimes and did happen lately, which is natural since this platform is an opened one for everybody to enter, what is not natural is to let it that way and certainly many members are not. Many are trying to deal with and solve many of the existed upnormal conditions there.

mepeace.org includes many things inside it, but what is good about it that all people can share there and just speak, a serious efforts are being studied to create principles and pure way to deal with this platform.

Each member might have his own experience there, good or bad, or combination of both, that doesn&#039;t necessary make mepeace.org totally bad neither it makes it totally good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a Palestinian and a member of mepeace.org, for a person who enters mepeace.org for the first time, he will find it a bit difficult for him to get in the discussions, but after following up and participating a few times, the person get to know some active members and get used to the general climate there.</p>
<p>There could be on mepeace.org many people with many different views about the two sides and the conflict as a whole, for me personally I succeeded in making too many friends from different places with totally different view, simply because we considered the term of respect and interaction between us. Aggressiveness could happen sometimes and did happen lately, which is natural since this platform is an opened one for everybody to enter, what is not natural is to let it that way and certainly many members are not. Many are trying to deal with and solve many of the existed upnormal conditions there.</p>
<p>mepeace.org includes many things inside it, but what is good about it that all people can share there and just speak, a serious efforts are being studied to create principles and pure way to deal with this platform.</p>
<p>Each member might have his own experience there, good or bad, or combination of both, that doesn&#8217;t necessary make mepeace.org totally bad neither it makes it totally good.</p>
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		<title>By: Neri Bar-On</title>
		<link>http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/08/01/my-farewell-to-mepeace/#comment-20668</link>
		<dc:creator>Neri Bar-On</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kawthar, exactly what I said, since Esra&#039;a corrected me.

(I wrote probably so I am happy to take it back.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kawthar, exactly what I said, since Esra&#8217;a corrected me.</p>
<p>(I wrote probably so I am happy to take it back.)</p>
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