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Interview Questions for Yoa'ad Shbita

Where are you from, and how did you come to do what you're doing now?

Why were the first Arab Jewish school exchanges you participated in silly?

What is Re'ut-Sadaka?

Can you tell me about the hardest part, or something that surprised you from the first dialogue groups you were in?

Which are the truly serious issues that come up in dialogue?

What about you? Do you recall anything that changed about you during the dialogue process?

What was your solution during that high school dialogue session about how to divide up the map?

How does your family see things regarding where you will live and a solution to the conflict?

Can you tell me a little more about how you feel as a Palestinian who lives in Israel?

Do you talk about these things -- the issue of refugees -- in the dialog groups?

What does it do for you to talk about these things like the issue of refugees?

Tell me a bit about summer camp. What will you do with them this summer?

Which things do you remember having agreed on with the Jewish group at Building Bridges for Peace?

How does it feel to belong to both the Palestinian and Israeli groups?

To someone who isn't familiar with the situation, how would you explain why dialogue is so important? Why do you do this?

What do you do with people in the neighborhood in Jaffa?

So why did you decide to live here in this Jewish Palestinian communal living situation?

Tell me about what it’s like to live in the Re'ut-Sadaka house together.

What's the difference in how you and your Jewish friends experience a year of community service?

What were you thinking of studying?

How come you are not sure you would want to study abroad?

What do your parents think about the work your doing at the Re'ut-Sadaka house?

And what about your friends from home, what do they think about what you're doing here?

What do your friends from Tira think about the ideas of coexistence, Re'ut-Sadaka, the summer camp?

What is the most important thing for you to achieve for yourself, for posterity?

What will it take for things to get better?

Why do you think previous peace processes failed?

What does the word peace mean to you?

Where do you find signs of hope?

How does fear influence the conflict?