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A Palestinian and an Israeli, Face to Face | Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon | TED

How can Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace? Palestinian peacemaker Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli peacemaker Maoz Inon discuss the immeasurable tragedies they’ve experienced growing up in the region — and how they choose reconciliation over revenge, again and again. With a fierce belief in a better future, they talk about conflict, safety, finding shared values…

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How can Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace? Palestinian peacemaker Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli peacemaker Maoz Inon discuss the immeasurable tragedies they’ve experienced growing up in the region — and how they choose reconciliation over revenge, again and again. With a fierce belief in a better future, they talk about conflict, safety, finding shared values and how they’re building a coalition of Israeli and Palestinian citizens who are intent on creating a path to hope and peace.

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109 Comments

  1. @roei_hayun

    April 17, 2024 at 2:44 pm

    first , Palestine don’t exist
    second , their leaders encourage and pay for terror ! don’t tell me they want peace and all this ****

  2. @deezylanga

    April 17, 2024 at 2:45 pm

    Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Israel……….and rebuild/reparations for Palestine

    • @xren0123456789

      April 17, 2024 at 5:00 pm

      Stop the Arab aggression against Israel, which has been going on since 1948, and reparations to Israel from the arabian aggressors!

  3. @truhhhhhhhokIII3

    April 17, 2024 at 3:25 pm

    Whats funny is i kinda half listen to things, and i cant even tell which one is Palestinian and which is israeli. Either way the message about growing together is needed.

  4. @FrancisSiuChock

    April 17, 2024 at 3:28 pm

    Conflict is unfortunately mostly driven by power, but PEACE is always driven by hope and care for one another. Let us HOPE that those in power can see that there are no winners in War.

  5. @LiteraryStoner

    April 17, 2024 at 3:33 pm

    ❤Anger is often understandable, but acting on it with violence is not the answer. The way these 2 men are talking and working for compromising and peace, that is the answer. It’s not easy, but who ever said doing what was right, was easy?

  6. @lIlilIiiIIlliIliil1

    April 17, 2024 at 3:33 pm

    Uk is the reason

  7. @dominique217

    April 17, 2024 at 3:44 pm

    Thank you. ❤

  8. @DRUNKBEATZ

    April 17, 2024 at 3:58 pm

    Another attempt to „both side“ the G side. Obviously conversation and forgiveness is important, but mostly it’s important to stop the illegal settlements and the brutal G Side!!

    • @xren0123456789

      April 17, 2024 at 4:58 pm

      First, it is necessary to stop the Arab aggression against Israel, which has been going on since 1948!

  9. @fernandas.souzamedmcprcc9307

    April 17, 2024 at 4:00 pm

    sitting with one’s pain and grief and sorrow and terror while holding the other’s. what a privilege to have been there 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  10. @bodmax7284

    April 17, 2024 at 4:09 pm

    I cried.😭

  11. @legalise.nuclearbombs

    April 17, 2024 at 4:27 pm

    The dance battle is gonna be crazy

  12. @legalise.nuclearbombs

    April 17, 2024 at 4:27 pm

    This rap battle finna go nuts

  13. @jumpman858

    April 17, 2024 at 4:30 pm

    Beautiful.

  14. @Ethical_Finance

    April 17, 2024 at 4:35 pm

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

  15. @Ethical_Finance

    April 17, 2024 at 4:38 pm

    “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.” – Chomsky

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

    • @river2805

      April 17, 2024 at 5:38 pm

      preach!!!!

    • @pronoder4378

      April 17, 2024 at 8:13 pm

      Can you actually watch the video instead of blindly sending propaganda?

  16. @fridmanlena1990

    April 17, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    This is all very nice and idealistic. The problem is far more complex, the differences, the trauma memory, fear, pain and resentment do not go away easily

    • @Feefa99

      April 17, 2024 at 7:47 pm

      It’s not a complex issue

  17. @simonmcglary

    April 17, 2024 at 5:18 pm

    Talking, learning, recognising that individuals like this can be the bigger difference than political leaders. Real intelligence and understanding.

  18. @IsabellaFung

    April 17, 2024 at 5:25 pm

    Instead of starting wars with each other, countries should just do this – talk face to face…have the whole thing televised live for everyone in the world (and universe) to see how we SHOULD be resolving differences and conflicts…

  19. @hellarandom00

    April 17, 2024 at 5:49 pm

    This is so beautiful and what our “leaders” SHOULD be doing. If they did engage with one another in a compassionate and caring way, these conversations would not be necessary because the conflict would not exist. The true issue is the desire for power and greed at the expense of human lives. It’s time to stop resorting to war and replace blind hatred with compassion, empathy, and love. I remain hopeful and optimistic that this will be reality in my lifetime ❤

  20. @johndoe-zz1nr

    April 17, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    Of course life of children of God are more precious than children of lesser God

  21. @stevenb9766

    April 17, 2024 at 7:05 pm

    There would be peace if everyone thought like this.

  22. @natehavs.4568

    April 17, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    The difference is, the majority of Israelis are like this Israeli guy. The majority of Palestinians are not at all like this Palestinian guy.

    • @pronoder4378

      April 17, 2024 at 8:12 pm

      We can work with that minority

    • @xerephinemusic8235

      April 17, 2024 at 8:20 pm

      All evidence would point to the opposite.

    • @natehavs.4568

      April 17, 2024 at 8:24 pm

      @@xerephinemusic8235 Actually all polls show that 80% of Gazans support Hamas and the Oct 7 massacre.
      Polls also show the majority of Israelis support a 2 state solution.
      Get your facts straight.
      And get a job

  23. @dreamdiver3027

    April 17, 2024 at 7:18 pm

    Two unrealistically holly mans talking unrealistically holly, but the right things. Boring video. Coz everyone knows all of that.

  24. @Jekzah

    April 17, 2024 at 7:22 pm

    who wouldve thought that TED of all people would open a dialogue and discussion. props on you guys, in a world full of propaganda, lies, and he said eh said. this is what we need , dialogue and discussion.

  25. @wongilank

    April 17, 2024 at 7:37 pm

    I’m crying by the end of the video, and I’m not even a Palestinian or an Israeli. Just a human being who has a dream of a more connected, peaceful, and just world

  26. @pastoribrahim8293

    April 19, 2024 at 4:37 pm

    Pro Hamas ❤❤❤

  27. @pastoribrahim8293

    April 19, 2024 at 4:37 pm

    Israeli is lying and the other one is not Palestinian

  28. @calusa55

    April 19, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    I wish you both well and hope that others will follow. Thanks

  29. @bridgethackett8112

    April 19, 2024 at 4:51 pm

    What is peace does it mean you take the Palestinians off the reservation

  30. @issamsoufan82

    April 19, 2024 at 4:55 pm

    Peace to Palestinians & Israeli’s

  31. @dirkhan74

    April 19, 2024 at 4:56 pm

    Individuals like these guys should rule Israel and Palestine rather than Netanyahu and Hamas

  32. @annakortukov2845

    April 19, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    Glad to see them talking but confused why why palestinians support hamas then? Also, they celbrate civilians killed in Israel. Seems like Aziz is in minority when Maoz actually represents common Israeli.

  33. @saraalm9567

    April 19, 2024 at 5:28 pm

    Damn that’s crazy anyways free Palestine

  34. @gailkerzner5516

    April 19, 2024 at 5:52 pm

    ❤❤❤❤ keep speaking and making sure your perspective gets heard.

  35. @hibalala1521

    April 19, 2024 at 6:04 pm

    They are both so well spoken, and share a vision of unity. but meanwhile the world and governments have double standards have pain for 1200 people and not for more than 33000 today 75000 injured and even more than 1million displaced and only feel for one side how you choose a side over a side we are talking about humans. I feel this is fake though both have hebrew accent i feel like this is a propaganda. and if you speak arabic you know he is not arabic.

  36. @leonhart1990

    April 19, 2024 at 6:34 pm

    Palestinian, of course they wants peace, but what is peace without justice? An apartheid system that oppressed them for the last few decades? do they able to get their land back? does israeli goverment willing to accept their mistakes?

  37. @raquelfereres6396

    April 19, 2024 at 6:36 pm

    I disagree. Israel was not acting by revenge there are hostages in Gaxa and dialog has not been possible. The 1st hostages were returned by military pressure. Do you think you can seat with Hamas for coffee and ask them politely to return hostages? No moral simetry

  38. @elazarbrandman3646

    April 19, 2024 at 6:56 pm

    🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

  39. @no1993ha

    April 19, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    It’s always the average person who suffers ..

  40. @gabriellesalva9508

    April 19, 2024 at 7:42 pm

    “Burnt beyond recognition” sounds lile his mother became a victim of a hellfire missile or a tank shell.

  41. @faygakaplan775

    April 19, 2024 at 7:54 pm

    It’s not about revenge, it’s self defense. Peace will not be built above lies

  42. @M.normal

    April 19, 2024 at 7:58 pm

    Don’t u think that
    SADLY,
    This is a completely NAIVE discussion now,

    It would’ve worked before 7 months, before the world leaders morally corrupted the ideas that we see in super hero’s movies, they just ruined the idea of peace that comes from the kindness of people’s hearts, and instead it would’ve worked only if both guys are equal in the power,

    Isn’t it the dominating morals nowadays ?

  43. @migdalrova

    April 19, 2024 at 7:58 pm

    Thank you TED for making this space

  44. @ifaa83

    April 19, 2024 at 8:17 pm

    If Aziz was the representative example of Palestinians – we would have never been fighting each other. We could have been friends, even family. We could break down the borders. We wouldn’t need an army. I wish this really was the reality, truly. It is not the reality. The ones like Aziz are an insignificant minority, sadly (no cynicism, I wish every Palestinian was Aziz-like). If only it was that easy.

  45. @ramy3103

    April 19, 2024 at 8:20 pm

  46. @rimarm2467

    April 19, 2024 at 8:22 pm

    Would beautiful 2 human being ! Humanity is what we all need to heal !

  47. @emiliobello2538

    April 19, 2024 at 8:41 pm

    I hope they settle their differences

  48. @reanne2225

    April 19, 2024 at 8:47 pm

    These two need to be united leaders of a new joint partnered country. And then let the rest of the world follow their lead.

  49. @psalmsalem7173

    April 19, 2024 at 9:23 pm

    Zaphaniah 2:4-10
    Palestine come to Jesus then your heart will be able to allies and peace.
    If keep pointing out finger at each other conflict will never end.
    Accept and adapt and allies take new life 🎉 praying for understanding

  50. @brunodealmeidajabrayan5563

    April 19, 2024 at 9:28 pm

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👊.

  51. @Whitfield369

    April 20, 2024 at 4:35 pm

    While I am touched by these two great men, I still don’t see the solution to this tragic situation, because there are more, overwhelmingly more in both sides that would never reconcile, and completely unforgiving. I have to stress, that the Israelis had the upper hand for the past so many decades. Only they can decide how to resolve the conflict. However I don’t see any willingness to compromise from the majority of their citizens. So all the good wills of these two gentlemen are drown in the tsunami of hatred, unless a credible force intervenes, thus the nature of human tragedy, that might makes right, one way or the other.

  52. @user-gw6mn7cu7r

    April 20, 2024 at 4:37 pm

    Wow. These should be the values people need to propagate. Such a beautiful talk, hoping for a better and peaceful future

  53. @yasmineamrouchi4978

    April 20, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    We as humans , must love each other ,respect and help each other or at least not harm the other …
    I see people on the comments talking about making peace and else … Peace won’t come if the colonists won’t go … that’s the matter , and Palestinians don’t deserve just peace Palestinians need their land back ! 🇵🇸❤

  54. @Kapuchinka

    April 20, 2024 at 4:47 pm

    you are the hope!

  55. @arafatsalahaldin207

    April 20, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    Palestinian and Jews people are not the problem to make peace, Politicians and governments Are. God bless everyone.

  56. @monicachung3335

    April 20, 2024 at 4:53 pm

    Esto es maravilloso. Ojalá más personas con esta valentia, es el camino hacia la paz entre Palestina e Israel.

  57. @skullandbones1832

    April 20, 2024 at 4:57 pm

    👍

  58. @AppleBlossomBeauty

    April 20, 2024 at 4:57 pm

    🕊️🤍🕊️🤍

  59. @anjotheweezky215

    April 20, 2024 at 5:07 pm

    This is awesome. This is how Israelites and Palestinians should live. ❤️👑❤️👑

  60. @user-sd3hq2dt5n

    April 20, 2024 at 5:12 pm

    Just saying that those opinions are less then 10 percent on both sides. (As an israeli)

  61. @shamim1587

    April 20, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    Middle East needs peace ; post Zionists when Jews Christians and Muslims lived as brethren

  62. @bakshi_varun

    April 20, 2024 at 5:24 pm

    That was truly moving, and inspiring. May we all have this perspective and be more human.

  63. @jvybe8440

    April 20, 2024 at 5:34 pm

    I’m in tears watching this video,the world needs to be humanity above all,ego revenge envy arrogance we must unite

  64. @talberdichevski2152

    April 20, 2024 at 5:49 pm

    Israeli here: It is good to have a conversation with the other siide and be emphatic. What I don’t agree with is the notion that peace is always the only rational solution and war is a decision stemming entirely from hate or revenge. I think getting rid of Hamas rule is a reasonable way to react to a terrorist group that controls a territory with an iron fist and shows no signs of changing its violent course. Perhaps you can make a realistic argument for other approaches too. My point is just not be too judgemental towards people with different outlooks. It is not healthy to think of your view as the only brave and objective one and the other as weak and tainted by emotion.

    • @bluedreams517

      April 20, 2024 at 8:53 pm

      I had to go on a learning curve to understand this conflict and what led to it when Oct 7 happened. It took me weeks to feel like I had a decent grasp. I still assume I’ve only scratched the surface. The problem with this to me, is that each side believes deeply that they are justified in using violence as a means to meet their end goals towards justice and security. Both arguments can be persuasive about it and both are doing things in a way that strongly points to a deep dehumanization of the other side built on a riptide of pain, loss, fears, and injustices.
      In this state, violence feels like a solution that will lead to results. Violence often has an immediate experience of satisfaction, especially when the stories of horrific death of innocents are muted. But violence further justifies the sense of victimhood from the other side. At some point if violence is seen as a viable solution, the other side will respond with violence again. It’s a death cycle.
      I don’t judge people for seeing war as a means to an end. I just don’t think it’s really effective in the long term. This war is costing you as an israeli both international support, moral ground, and long term security. It’s traumatizing an entire generation in deep and irreparable ways that will absolutely create more of a desire for blood lust, if they survive the horrors that is Gaza right now. That’s a serious problem. Even if the immediate goal and reasoning had merit (and it did).

  65. @eluna34

    April 20, 2024 at 5:56 pm

    I think this conversation is valuable and the people in it are speaking with genuine integrity. However its also worth remember this conversation is highly sanitized because both parties are aware they are being watched and judged for everything they say. This is not reflective of conversations around kitchen tables by both these diasporas (regrettably).

  66. @swartkat4394

    April 20, 2024 at 5:58 pm

    Well done gentlemen, it’s been a while since there were 2 adults in the room about this topic. 👏👏👏

  67. @gitcotech

    April 20, 2024 at 6:00 pm

    Legs crossed 🤔?

  68. @irinagrudeva9833

    April 20, 2024 at 6:17 pm

  69. @Obamaned

    April 20, 2024 at 6:45 pm

    Thank you both for this message.

  70. @orencoen961

    April 20, 2024 at 6:57 pm

    Its nice and hopfull to discuss peace and its amazing that there are a few Palestinians that want peace BUT the harsh reality is the vast majorty want to kill us. The reason october 7th happened is because of trust.

    Alot needs to change before we can have peace ✌️

  71. @ChristineOneill-pg5mh

    April 20, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    WE, the People.

  72. @a.h.5296

    April 20, 2024 at 7:17 pm

    “I love you. And it brings me to the most important lessons I’ve learned:

    That hope is an action.
    It’s not something you find
    It’s not something you can lose
    It’s something you are making.

    And I came up with a simple formula, a recipe, “how to make hope”

    First, like love you cannot do it by yourself,
    You are doing it with others.

    And we are starting by envisioning a better future.
    And then we are acting to make this future into a reality.
    It’s act, we must act.

    And through the process we always need to convince first ourselves, and all our coalition and everyone who is willing to listen, that
    our actions are effective.

    And I believe if we will be brave enough and brilliant enough, we can make this future into a reality.
    In the new future that by 2030 or before there’s going to be peace between the river and the sea.”

    🙌🏼

  73. @louiselloyd1523

    April 20, 2024 at 7:35 pm

    I really hope there are a lot more Israelis and Palestinians like these two men. I hope there are a lot more people all over the world like these two men.

  74. @etomichelverny

    April 20, 2024 at 8:36 pm

    I love my Boris Nudelman, my Yasser Arafat, my Paul Allen, my Liliane Bettencourt & my Overoveroverovergod

  75. @copperbeech61

    April 20, 2024 at 9:12 pm

    Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

  76. @BB01234

    April 21, 2024 at 4:34 pm

    Hope these conversations make Israel think in terms of humanity and humility. The Palestinians are not out to get you, they just want to live life of dignity and peace.

  77. @davidasher2376

    April 21, 2024 at 4:56 pm

    This is so naive

  78. @davidasher2376

    April 21, 2024 at 5:00 pm

    אוי התמימות 12:26

  79. @jamieb7799

    April 21, 2024 at 5:00 pm

    And this is how we can achieve peace, understanding, empathy & respect ❤

  80. @septembersage6438

    April 21, 2024 at 5:29 pm

    youtube comments are always the most sane when it comes to this conflict. they’re always full of the “people who don’t want peace, yet”, and there comments are filled with the “people who want peace”

  81. @TheGingermarie

    April 21, 2024 at 5:31 pm

    Hello, May I share the most important news you will ever hear in your entire life? God the Father sent His holy Son Jesus Christ(Y’shua Ha’ Mashiach) from heaven to earth, to be born of a virgin. He grew up and died on the cross for our sins. He was put into a tomb for 3 days, and then Abba Father raised Jesus to life and He appeared to people and went back to Heaven. We must all sincerely receive Jesus to be a true child of God. It says in John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” Will you genuinely believe on Christ Jesus and truly receive Him today, before it is too late?

  82. @husnar.ananta2002

    April 21, 2024 at 5:38 pm

    It doesn’t compare to wht they did to gaza and its not fair tht they get supported frm US. Ppl of Palestine is under occupation of greedy nation of israhell

  83. @storkonstage

    April 21, 2024 at 5:43 pm

    This is great. Let these men lead Israël and Palestine. New leadership. 🙏🏼🕊️

  84. @k42243

    April 21, 2024 at 6:01 pm

    I’m sorry but, if I went back to my old apartment because I got kicked out of my last one, found other people there, killed some, kicked out some and locked the rest in the basement, and then the ones in the basement broke out and beat me up, no one would feel bad for me. I just have a hard time logically understanding the Israeli position. Idk man

  85. @ZeroXAlAttas

    April 21, 2024 at 6:27 pm

    2 people, 2 future presidents for Palestine and Israel with a fair 50% – 50% land from the whole area. (Also means the settlements will have to lose their land) Fair enough?

  86. @polacovolpe

    April 21, 2024 at 6:41 pm

    Count with me. I’m in

  87. @ori8913

    April 21, 2024 at 7:01 pm

    The Palestinian man is not like Palestinians in Gaza, the y don’t want to talk, they want the destruction of Israel. This is the reality, sad.

  88. @lorileifer613

    April 21, 2024 at 7:33 pm

    I can’t get behind the whole “nakba” narrative. That’s really the only issue with this conversation.

  89. @ciara7221

    April 21, 2024 at 7:45 pm

    that was beautiful

  90. @evry1loveronica

    April 21, 2024 at 7:57 pm

    We are all paying the price for the egos of bad leaders

  91. @zahra87118

    April 21, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Imam Hussain bin Abi Talib said, “The most merciful person is the one who forgives when he is able to take revenge” this quote fits this situation perfectly

  92. @SomeoneRandom-ct4xs

    April 21, 2024 at 8:08 pm

    The only problem here is that there can’t be peace with Hamas in power as they will always call for the genocide of Jews and destruction of Israel. Peace ☮️

  93. @alvarogonzalez4418

    April 21, 2024 at 8:25 pm

    Dialog and coexisting between both parts is what they need. We need to stop looking for a two-state solution to segregate both communities. Gazans need to be incorporated to Israel and become a politic party instead another fundamentalist islamic country.

  94. @Sarah-gm8zy

    April 21, 2024 at 8:41 pm

    I think as humans, there can’t be a real fair peace unless there’s justice served. Amen to that

  95. @alkassam2996

    April 21, 2024 at 8:45 pm

    Martin Luther King, Jr “…I have a dream that one day every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope…With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
    This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning …”

  96. @objetivofelicidadsostenible

    April 21, 2024 at 8:46 pm

    A TED borned to be viral!!!

  97. @lornah4147

    April 21, 2024 at 8:50 pm

    We need to make this viral ❤ The entire world needs to see & hear this conversation

  98. @abdallahel-falou3849

    April 21, 2024 at 9:03 pm

    This felt scripted, but I’ll take it at face value. Oh how much I long for peace upon justice in Palestine-Israel.

    The one thing I appreciate about this is their willingness to ask difficult questions. Both are great examples.

    It’s a start, but we desperately need more than warm and fluffy conversations. We need true accountability and reconciliation.

    From the Palestinian side, the cost both historic and present is tremendous. Millions of refugees still await the day they come home. People in the West Bank live under military occupation daily, many harassed by armed settlers as well. People in Gaza – where do I even start..

  99. @adityarao9793

    April 21, 2024 at 9:13 pm

    TED for Nobel Peace prize. Petition to give this years Nobel Peace prize to TED , the facilitator

  100. @LukeFlegg

    April 21, 2024 at 9:15 pm

    I feel like this might be the first positive And hopeful thing I’ve watched, heard, or read about this conflict since it took over my thoughts and dreams on the 7th of October.

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