Sikkuy has initiated special activities helping both Jewish and Arab societies to cope with the new situation. We just held the first of a series of seven or eight parlour meetings, established to help both Jews and Arabs to process the situation and help people digest their feelings of anger and frustration and to rationalize and legitimize those feelings. We challenge the traditional concept of coexistence based on a fragile fabric of relations. These relations should be forged from a strong civic fabric. We finally see that coexistence as it was does not work.
Equality is the main issue.
The government cannot be let off the hook for equality, adequate budgets and affirmative action. At Sikkuy we have more than hope. The trust must be built on better foundations so as not to be so fragile.