As I have recounted already several times, it happened like this: at the end of 1992, the newPrime Minister, Yitzhaq Rabin, expelled 415 Islamic activists - mostly Hamas members - to the Lebanese borderarea. In protest, we put up tents opposite the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. There we spent 45 daysand nights - Israeli peace activists (who were later to found Gush Shalom) and Arab citizens of Israel, mostlymembers of the Islamic movement. Most of the time it was very cold, and some days our tents were covered withsnow. There was a lot of debate in the tents, the Jews learning something about Islam and the Muslimssomething about Judaism.