The New York Times · 15 March 2002

CP-2002-058

For Children, Peace Seems Easy if They Get to Connect

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“A Palestinian boy named Faraj tells a documentary filmmaker about his desire to avenge a friend who threw stones at an Israeli soldier and was killed. But when the filmmaker arranges to have Faraj meet Israeli twins, he prepares for the rendezvous as if it’s a date. Before they arrive, he spritzes himself with cologne.”

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A review of Promises, the Academy Award nominated documentary. Faraj with the cologne is the detail that survives the film, and the headline’s easy is doing something the children in the film never claim.

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"For Children, Peace Seems Easy if They Get to Connect," The New York Times, 15 March 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-058. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-058

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