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“We can break this endless cycle of revenge, retaliation and punishment; the only way to do it is to listen to the pain of the other,” said Rami Elhanan, an Israeli Jew whose fourteen-year-old daughter was killed in a suicide attack in Jerusalem.
He and a Palestinian who had lost a brother in the conflict were speaking on behalf of the Bereaved Families Forum to 120 participants in the Middle East Peace Initiative in Jerusalem April 10-16, 2007.
A graphic designer whose family has roots in Jerusalem dating back seven generations, Rami described the day his daughter Smadir died, September 4, 1997. . .
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