John Wallach
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"John Wallach" was an American journalist, author and editor as well as founder of Seeds of Peace international camp in Maine.

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Seeds of Peace exists in the real world. It exists among people who've been taught to hate each other, and it's finding some basis for them to coexist with one another.

Living in the same bunk can be one of the most difficult adjustments because you are sleeping with the enemy.

I remember in our first or second year, we had an Israeli who was walking outside the bunk at 2 o'clock in the morning. We said, 'Why aren't you sleeping?' He said, 'I can't fall asleep because I am afraid the Palestinian kid in my bunk is gonna knife me.