has a festival in the summer called the reliance festival and it chooses plays from a great number of plays that are submitted and we came across this one and it was a bit longer than your usual i moved there after my father died and the reason i moved to ramallah local is to training the teachers and as i became friendly with the palestinians i started to understand their plight and their situation from the palestinian point of view and i become sympathetic to them so in the midst of that my sister comes to visit she is intent on burying her father's ashes  so she said you know we or zionists you are the enemy period i'm not saying it's right but that's how it was for us growing up and so she just doesn't question her allegiances she's very devout in her her beliefs but she doesn't honestly know very religious point of view he made a lot of bad decisions and life although going to prison has changed his perspective on life dramatically and he used  his negative experiences in order to shape other people's understanding of how certain situations must be  where exactly did your family live our village name was yes exactly i i think i connected with now quite a bit because i didn't know a lot about the issues at all and i don't take that knows about them either and it's really bad news to her what have the situation was and in fact it was put in this place where i can't go right couldn't even bury my father and so i'd live with the trauma of the loss of it but i think that i also of there but what struck me was well first of all not only the palestinians that came to see the show and how happy they were i mean just thrilled that their side of the story has been told finally and in a very enlightening way in very honest way but also very diplomatic way so i think it's a very balanced play it's a very well written play in the sense that it's it tells a story and it tells the so there was also something else i didn't realize at the time and that was that there were some factions of the israeli population i knew of them the very conservative factions but  i didn't really believe they had much force in the government that you really don't want peace and all along i thought israel wanted peace and they were just being thwarted in effect by starfire terrorists causing violence and then defending themselves against these when there is actually a faction in israel that doesn't want peace because the longer the conflict drags on the lower there is no palestinian state the more land can be acquired by occupying armies and more settlements get built and less land eventually for any settlers this was a difficult realization for me  the long history of everything that has happened up until that point so it's more than that it's accepting your own past in your own history and what your people have done on both sides on both sides so i think it's really about sort of meeting in the middle and accepting what has happened and moving forward from there hopefully in a spirit of acceptance of peace i think i've come to appreciate these two women i don't at first i think i've come to realize and feel that mara the younger sister who i had first see is just another international liberal who is facile into the liberal but i come to feel that she has staying power that she really does feel these things and even know that the person who is the more stereotyped shoe has all the wrong ideas as far i want them to appreciate and know what happened to me and my people and my palestinian people to know both what we lost before and what life is like for us now i want them to know this t but it's not is important to me as it is to my nephew to get up an apology so i don't like it that he broke beats her and almost blackmailed sir into saying i'm sorry because to me it's more important that she r settlements so to them it wasn't news and it was very meaningful it had impact on them but i also have jewish friend who if i if i had not been in the play short of walked out she said only stay because of you she said i know that's revisionist history those things don't happen didn't happen so she's one of those who was just assaulted or really assaulted by the idea that anyone would even i did read the reviews of various authors various that critics had and almost every one of them was very positive they thought the play was strong they thought the acting was very powerful and it brought up issues that that they may not have thought of were they may not have thought of them in that same way and so i think they were all very appreciative of the palestinian community from the colleges and locally in town responded positively and people came and they were