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FACE2FACE

When we met in 2005, we decided to go together in the Middle-East to figure out why
Palestinians and Israelis couldn't find a way to get along together.

We then traveled across the Israeli and Palestinian cities without speaking much. Just
looking to this world with amazement.

This holly place for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This tiny area where you can see
mountains, sea, deserts and lakes, love and hate, hope and despair embedded together.

After a week, we had a conclusion with the same words: these people look the same; they
speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families.

A religious covered woman has her twin sister on the other side. A farmer, a taxi driver,
a teacher, has his twin brother in front of him. And he his endlessly fighting with him.

It's obvious, but they don't see that.

We must put them face to face. They will realize.

We want that, at last, everyone laughs and thinks when he sees the portrait of the other
and his own portrait.

The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job
and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and
the Palestinian sides.

In a very sensitive context, we need to be clear.
We are in favor of a solution for which two countries, Israel and Palestine would live
peacefully within safe and internationally recognized borders.

All the bilateral peace projects (Clinton/Taba, Ayalon/Nussibeh, Geneva Accords) are
converging in the same direction. We can be optimistic.

We hope that this project will contribute to a better understanding between Israelis and
Palestinians.

Today, "Face to face" is necessary.
Within a few years, we will come back for "Hand in hand".