How To Mend Fences

[Hossfly]

Little Palestinian and Jewish boys playing baseball! What better way to make new friends?
Baseball for All, the first ever baseball program for Jewish and Arab Israeli children was launched last week.

Jewish and Arab youth playing baseball together . (photo credit:MARGO SUGARMAN)


In baseball, hitting a home run usually means hitting the ball over the fence.

But last Thursday and Friday, the Israel Association of Baseball in partnership with the Play Global non-profit organization hit a very special home run. The two organizations launched Baseball for All (Baseball Le’Kulam), the first ever baseball program for Jewish and Arab Israeli children, and they hit it out of the park.

The sixth graders, 13 from Modi’in and 15 from Ramle, none of whom had played baseball before, took their time to warm to each other like most new friends, but once they had started learning the basics of baseball, and saw the need to work together as a team, any concerns quickly disappeared.



Israeli baseball bringing Jewish and Arab youth together - Israel News - Jerusalem Post

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Children can be much wiser than adults.

 

[1stRambo]

Little Palestinian and Jewish boys playing baseball! What better way to make new friends?
Baseball for All, the first ever baseball program for Jewish and Arab Israeli children was launched last week.

Jewish and Arab youth playing baseball together . (photo credit:MARGO SUGARMAN)


In baseball, hitting a home run usually means hitting the ball over the fence.

But last Thursday and Friday, the Israel Association of Baseball in partnership with the Play Global non-profit organization hit a very special home run. The two organizations launched Baseball for All (Baseball Le’Kulam), the first ever baseball program for Jewish and Arab Israeli children, and they hit it out of the park.

The sixth graders, 13 from Modi’in and 15 from Ramle, none of whom had played baseball before, took their time to warm to each other like most new friends, but once they had started learning the basics of baseball, and saw the need to work together as a team, any concerns quickly disappeared.



Israeli baseball bringing Jewish and Arab youth together - Israel News - Jerusalem Post

Yo, they better hope Soros don`t destroy goodwill?

"GTP"

 

[P F Tinmore]

I don't see anything unusual.

 

[Hossfly]

I don't see anything unusual.

You didn't notice that none of the kids are wearing suicide belts?

 

[Statistikhengst]

This is a good thing. Sports and music can unite people.

Good thread, Hossfly.

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[P F Tinmore]

I don't see anything unusual.

You didn't notice that none of the kids are wearing suicide belts?

And none were dropping bombs out of F-16s either.

So what is your point?

 

[Phoenall]

I don't see anything unusual.

You didn't notice that none of the kids are wearing suicide belts?

And none were dropping bombs out of F-16s either.

So what is your point?

A bit too young, but dropping bombs on military targets is as far removed from targeting children deliberately as you can get. Don't forget under the Geneva conventions hamas had to remove all civilians from the area they planned to use to launch rockets at Israel. Because they didn't they are responcible for the deaths caused

 

[Esmeralda]

MENDING WALL
Robert Frost



Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."