Seeds must create artificial equity between groups within the context of its programing, in order for dialogue to happen, precisely because there is no equity in reality. At the same time, its important to avoid that artificial equity created in programming doesn't obscure the power dynamics that exist in reality, specifically when the organization is communicating to its supporters, partners, graduates, staff and donors.

Changing the status quo requires defining the status quo.

The major obstacle preventing dialogue and friendship between Israeli and Palestinian children is the systematic segregation perpetuated by Israel's separation wall, military infrastructure, illegal settlements, and uneven distribution of rights based on ethnicity.

Until these basic realities are shared with Seeds of Peace campers, and some justice is achieved for Palestinians, joint summer camps can only serve to beautify conditions in Palestine that are closer to the racism of the American civil rights era, than reconciliation.