Bassam Aramin was sent to Israeli prison as a 17-year-old for his role in the Palestinian resistance.  He spent seven years there, and eventually started questioning the value of armed resistance.  Several years after his release, he co-founded “Combatants for Peace.”  He has refused to pick up arms since his release, even when, in 2007, his 10-year-old daughter, Abir, was killed by an Israeli soldier’s rubber bullet on her way home from school.  He is also the subject of a documentary film – Within the Eye of the Storm. He is completing his Masters in Holocaust Studies.