I have two friends who live in seperate philosophical and political worlds that have built a bridge to each other.One is a Jew and the other an Arab. Both are mothers .wives and respected members of their communities.They have loving husbands and wonderful children ,but what makes them different is that they have both been unwilling to acceppt the current lack of peace in the mid east.Their husbands, both good men, are locked into partisan positions and do not accept this posture of acceptance, but they reluctantly ignore their wive’s positions. They see the other side as evil and to accept them is to be naive and somewhat gullible. My friends believe that the real naivete is to continue the bellicose history that fosters hatred and seperation. They believe that in modeling friendship they keep a flicker of hope alive that someday the yearning for peace will outweigh the settling for hostility