Thanks to you all for your wonderful and emotional responses. Journalistic impartiality prevents me from commenting on whether or not Dr. Abuelaish should get the nobel prize, but her certainly has made great sacrifices in the name of peace.

This program is more than an eye-opener: it can change the way people think. Thank you for having the courage and honesty to present it to us. We need to hear it.

If there were an ounce of honesty in this world, the Nobel Peace prize would not have gone to President Obama but instead to a man who actually lives the way we'll ever get to Peace. The Peace Prize to Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish !

Great show today.....Thank You

Thanks to everyone at The State We're In and to RNW for bringing us this wonderful show again. I greatly appreciate it.

It's heartbreaking to realize the children - everyone, really - lived - or died - as a result of a completely random selection made, I'm sure, by no one - the process is an artifact of the public's helplessness. I have heard this segment several times by now. I have no wonderful wisdom to offer. It wasn't God's will, to my knowledge. I don't know why it happened. But nevertheless it makes me very sad.

It's hard to know what to say. The doctor has just said that after a screening of his movie everyone sat around without saying a word for five or ten minutes. And then someone said "we should go for a drink". That's the way I feel now - as though I should "go for a drink". At the very least (since I'm now very old) it would be a good idea for me to go and find friends and stand them some drinks and have a coffee for myself. I can't reproduce this at all. I'm at home, alone, it's very, very late, everyone's asleep (I have insomnia) and everything's closed, anyway.

But there's been one change. I don't know what it means, but the first couple of times I listened to the poor doctor's anguished screams I couldn't bear to listen. This time, I listened and just murmured quietly to myself, "That poor man."

I wonder if he knows what he's done for the world. He's done a great deal.

I must go back to bed. ;)

Deirdre MacKenzie, in Passmore, BC, Canada

I would appear that the Palestinian / Israeli current state of tragic affairs continues due to the fact that it has simply become "the daily norm to the extent that hatred has now become engrained in both sides". IMHO, the only way that this malaise can be broken is to broaden the scope of understanding and involvement to a far wider global audience. It is through efforts such as your interview with Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish that this can happen. Personally, my eyes were opened following discussions with a Palestinian expat / business associate now residing in Canada . The terrible state of affairs is simply wrong, the time has come to look past the who did what to whom when, and look for a solution. Having recently read the amazing doctor's book, it would appear that there is a glimmer of hope. We must support such peaceful efforts - shame on us if we do not as there are too many fundamentally good people - on either side - that deserve the opportunity to simply live in peace.

Carpe diem

DC

Thank you for the excellent interview with Samuel Maoz. It was very powerful.

the doctor i8sright. regardless of being jewish, muslic, israeli, or palestinian... the key to peace is to understand one another. understanding each other in an honest human level and not to address the mistakes both sides made... thing is many with this view feel like it is a losing battle. hate and emotion overcomes logic and blinds us. but the doctor contiues his message after losing so much. anger, rage, and hate do not control him and he contiues his path. he gives many strength. good people on both sides should never give up. you cant give up.

Thank you for the amazing interview you had with the Palestinian doctor who had lost his 3 daughters and still stood for peace and non-violence.

I wish more media in U.S. showed the human side of the Palestinians and their treatments by the Israelis. Some of us in U.S. are so immersed by the pro-Israeli, anti-Arab narrative that we lose sight of the absurd occupation that the Israelis have imposed on the Palestinian people for so long.

Please continue to lift the curtain on the humanity that's shining there.

Peace,
Kia