Dear Family,
Greetings of peace, in the day of peace, May all our days will be days of peace.
Prophet Mohamed (peace upon him) before he die, he delivered his last speech to Moslems, and the last thing he said "People, I commend you, to pass my peace greetings, for all those who will follow me until the Judgment day".

Prophet Mohamed sends you greetings of peace, and we send you greetings of peace, today a group from the Jordan Interfaith Action, will visit the Roman Theater in Amman's down town, to light candles for peace, to state that we refuse violence and we love peace, the Roman Theater two weeks ago, received a terror attack by a crazy person, who opened fire on a group of tourists.

Over two thirds of Jordanian population are under 30 years old, youth are the main target group for the terror organizations to transform them to terrorists, are the same youth who can be messengers of peace.

I will not talk about the terror in the Middle East, not because I believe you all know what is the middle east, But because I believe even those who lives in the middle east they don't know it very well. What I want to tell you that there is always hope, and Middle East is not as bad as it looks like, every day there are hundreds of people who are building and moving forward for peace, last Thursday I had to cut my participation in a conference for women in Jordan, to drive 30 km to the Airport, to meet with a guy who I never met or saw before, flying from India to Israel via Amman, an Israeli guy who is a youth worker, very enthusiastic and believe that he with other youth can make a change, he is my age, and we discussed a possible cooperation in building a youth alliance which will lobby and advocate for peace, even we talked about how the participants should be, we will interview them, they have to convince us that they believe in peace and that they have a dream like the dream we have, we even discussed how the posters which we will invite them through looks like, we said we will start with 80 participants and the next year the number will be 800 and who knows the year after it might be 8000, we said fund is not a problem, we are young we can find our way and the idea is great, so for sure they will support us, and we discussed even more detailed issues about the project, all of that was in one hour at the Q.A. International Airport, with one cup of coffee and some cigarettes.

Now some will say, so what? it was all talk by talk. And I say no, what was discussed at that table was something big, something was achieved at that table, we were two young men, we both celebrating our 30th birthday this year, we don't know each other before that meeting, he got my number from a friend, he called me when he was in India, telling me that he will have a transit in Amman for some hours, he have an idea, that’s it, I didn't know before that meeting if he is young or old, nothing. Now what was achieved there, that two young people from two different countries, from two different sides of such a conflict, came together to find out that they share the same dream, two young people one from Israel and the other from Jordan, for one hour they forgot the war, the boarders, bombers, the check points, the buses, Gaza, Tel Aviv, Lebanon they over passed all of that, and they shared a dream, a dream made them happy and optimistic for at least one hour. We greeted each other, we hugged each other like if we know each other since years, and I left happy and he left happy, and we both believes that we made a new friendship, which is true.

This is the other side of the middle east which you can't see, you can't see because CNN, FOX and Al-Jazeera they don't cover this part, you can’t see because we have one day for peace, and the rest of the year?! For what? For War?!.
Peace is here, it's exist, I can see it and touch it, I saw it last Thursday for a full hour. and if you want to see it, just set with yourself for sometime and think about it, it will come to you, and faster than you guess, because it's in side you.

Best wishes of Peace in the Day of Peace,

Anas Al-Abbadi
Jordan Interfaith Action
21.September.2006