Press

2012

February 9, 2012

The Fields of Bethlehem are Sown with Landmines!
Roots of Peace Announces First-Ever Consensus on LAND with Israel/Palestine
Over 1.5 million LANDmines will be Removed from The Holy Lands by 2025

February 9, 2012—San Rafael, California—Roots of Peace, a Marin County-based charity, has announced a “first-ever” consensus on LAND by Israeli’s and Palestinians on removing an estimated 1.5 million LAND mines in Israel and West Bank. A Press Conference will be held at Marin TV, 819 A Street, San Rafael, California at 8:30am/PST. There will be a LIVE SKYPE call between Roots of Peace/USA and Israel and Palestine to announce the DEMINE, REPLANT, REBUILD model to be implemented in the Middle-East. MEDIA/PRESS is invited.

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January 26, 2012

The Palestinian Authority, Secretary General, Yasser Abed Rabbo:
“We actively support Roots of Peace turning MINES TO VINES™ in Palestine”

January 26, 2012—Ramallah—The Palestinian Authority has formally approved the historic efforts of Roots of Peace to serve as the first international organization to bring forth consensus on land issues in the Middle-East by the removal of landmines and restoring the economics of peace.

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January 23, 2012

Heidi Kühn to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
“The Holy Land is not ‘holy' when there are Landmines in the Ground”

January 23, 2012—Jerusalem—In a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai and Agriculture Minister Orit Noked at the Knesset today, the Founder/CEO of international NGO Roots of Peace offered her support to Israel's humanitarian demining program.

Read more about Meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

January 6, 2012

The Epiphany–There are 1.5 Million Landmines in The Holy Lands!

The Palestinian and Israeli Authorities are celebrating the beginning of their partnership with Roots of Peace to remove deadly landmines in The Holy Lands on The Epiphany when the three wise men were guided by the star of light without the fear of landmines beneath their footsteps. The ghosts of landmines now riddle these same Abrahmic lands where shepherds once guarded their sheep and ‘a child was born’ who was cradled in the arms of parents who never imagined the perils of mines.