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Supporting Israeli and Palestinian Peace Builders

We Believe

The Middle East Peace Dialogue Network (MEPDN) believes that Israelis and Palestinians are destined to share the same land. The two-state solution has always been central to our beliefs as the just and dignified resolution of the conflict. But political outcomes in the 21st century, both in the region and in the US, have shown us that we are further away from that resolution than we have ever been.

Nevertheless, we still believes that peace, justice and prosperity can be achieved by a negotiated agreement which honors the national aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians.

We believe that the men, women and children of the region hold the key to the future. Although the political system is fractured and inhospitable to a two-state solution, the people themselves must shape their destiny.

Therefore, we support organizations, programs and activities that provide and promote work and employment opportunities, dialogue, education, reconciliation, cooperation, co-existence and tolerance programs and activities that bring Israelis and Palestinians together.

By continuously promoting recognition and understanding of the other side’s narrative, needs and rights, they can eventually transform decades of deeply entrenched stereotypes, fear and distrust into a willingness to recognize the other’s common humanity.

It is in the hands of the people to establish relationships and conditions that will enable a sustainable peace in the region to flourish.

We believe in the power of the people.

What We Do

Support organizations, activities and programs which encourage Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, co-existence and co-creation.

Provide fiscal sponsorship support to Israeli and Palestinian NGOs lacking an American Friends presence so they can successfully raise money in the US.

Provide Israeli and Palestinian NGO leaders with complimentary business and personal coaching to help them maximize their personal and organization’s performance.

Think BIG

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Nelson Mandela

“To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.”

French Proverb

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.”

G. M. Trevelyan

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” 

Christopher Reeve

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” 

Anonymous

“No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.” 

Elbert Hubbard

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

Marcus Aurelius

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

Anthony Robbins

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

Vince Lombardi

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” 

Robert Schuller

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.”

Anonymous

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

Paulo Coelho

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

Charles F. Kettering

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”

Thomas Carlyle

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” 

Alexander the Great

"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."

Arianna Huffington

"Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you."

Michelle Obama

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Confucius

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible ---and even the impossible may only be so, as of now"

Pearl Buck

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”

Louis Brandeis

“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”

Tom Robbins

“Difficult is what takes a little time: the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

Fridtjof Nansen