I was able to see the P.O.V. on PBS last night called "Promises." Even thinking about it now my eyes are tearing up...forget it, I'm crying. It was a documentary of 7 Isreali and Palestinian children who live 20 minutes apart and how extremely different their lives were. To hear them speak was incredibly powerful. I won't do it justice, so check your local listings. :-) One of the Palestinian boys didn't want to meet the Jewish boys because "they" had killed his friends brother, meaning the Isrealis. He was so smart and elequent even though he didn't speak much english. By the end, he had met the twin Jewish boys and they became very good friends that day. They had a sort of round table discussion at the end of the day and he just started crying because he said he knew they would go away and forget about the friendship because it was too difficult to maintain. I was balling by this time. To see the pain on his face, to hear him say how "torn" he is and know he really is torn...incredible. I loved that they spoke in their languages, too. It was almost all subtitled. So, I learned more about the conflict between Arabs and Jews/Isrealis and Palestinians...through the eyes of children.

Here's the website for it: http://www.pbs.org/pov/promises/index.html (I just found out it was nominated for an Academy Award!)