Building Peace: One Pastry at a Time

You would ask how can a pastry of honey and pistachios make the world a peaceful place? By eating them? Well, maybe that's half of it but the women of France found a way that the process of making pastry might just be the answer of healing the rifts between the Muslims and Jews.

And at a time where hints of changes in middle east are brewing in, the women who call themselves Les Battisseuses de Paix or Peace Builders in France believe that to encourage a Muslim-Jewish stability is to focus on simple things that the two can share - Like recipes!

The aim is not to solve the conflict that mystify and defied all the finest brains of diplomacy for decades but it is rather to neutralize the air and to block the transfer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  to them.

The crictics and cynics said the means are inadequate to solve the issue but the aim enough, is laudable.

France, the European country with the largest Muslim and Jewish population stems that the hostility between the two communities has been fueled by "French Jews thinking they are Israeli and French Muslims thinking they are Palestinians". A sentiment of thinking that is similar of other Jews and Muslims all over the world. 

Why does it looks appealing enought to work? It is perhaps as Ghaleb Bancheikh a French television host said "because of the women who brings the image of tenderness and maternal emotion" that is the best agent for stopping conflict.

Of course, in not discussing it, there is a certain hypocrisy but,  

With the sound of women in good spirits and cheering when their oven hot pastry turned out to be golden fine...

Now, if only we can turn Starbucks all over the world into such a place...