On Nov. 29, 31 years after the United Nations accepted the partition plan for Palestine which led to the creation of Israel, Israeli, Egyptian and American students held a special Rally for Peace on the University of Minnesota campus. The rally was sponsored by the Egyptian Student Organization, the Israeli Student Organization, the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, and the Minnesota Chapter of the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East. The rally was attended by 150-200 people, among them 30 Arabs, mainly Egyptians. Both Arab and Jewish speakers expressed hope for peace in the Mideast. The rally concluded with the dancing of the Egyptian debka and the Israeli hora.
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