TEDxJaffa 2012
Ronny Edry: Israel and Iran: A love story?
Israel og Iran: En kærlighedsfortælling?
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Da en krig mellem Israel og Iran virkede umiddelbar forestående, delte den israelske grafik designer Ronny Edry en plakat på Facebook af sig selv og sin datter med en modig budskab: "Iranere... vi [hjerte] Jer." Andre israelere skabte hurtigt deres egne plakater med samme budskab -- og iranere svarede på samme måde. Den simple kommunikationshandling var inspiration til overraskende Facebook fællesskaber såsom "Israel elsker Iran," "Iran elsker Israel" og endda "Palæstina elsker Israel."
Ronny Edry - Graphic Designer
Ronny Edry of Israel created The Peace Factory, an online movement for peace in the Middle East, when he posted a Facebook image that declared "Iranians, we will never bomb your country." Full bio
Ronny Edry of Israel created The Peace Factory, an online movement for peace in the Middle East, when he posted a Facebook image that declared "Iranians, we will never bomb your country." Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
00:16
On March 14, this year,
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Den 14. marts i år,
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I posted this poster on Facebook.
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slog jeg denne plakat op på Facebook.
00:22
This is an image of me and my daughter
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Dette er et billede af mig og min datter,
00:24
holding the Israeli flag.
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der holder det israelske flag.
00:27
I will try to explain to you about the context of why
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Jeg vil forsøge at forklare jer konteksten om hvorfor
00:30
and when I posted.
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og hvornår jeg slog dette op.
00:33
A few days ago, I was sitting waiting
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For få dage siden sad jeg ventende,
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on the line at the grocery store,
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i kø ved købmandsbutikken,
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and the owner and one of the clients
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og ejeren og en af kunderne
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were talking to each other,
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snakkede med hinanden,
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and the owner was explaining to the client
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og ejeren forklarede kunden
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that we're going to get 10,000 missiles on Israel.
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at vi ville få 10.000 missiler i Israel.
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And the client was saying, no, it's 10,000 a day.
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Og kunden sagde, nej, det er 10.000 om dagen.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
00:56
("10,000 missiles") This is the context. This is where we are now in Israel.
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("10.000 missiler") Dette er konteksten. Det er hvor vi er nu i Israel.
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We have this war with Iran coming for 10 years now,
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Denne krig med Iran har været på vej i 10 år nu,
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and we have people, you know, afraid.
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og vi har folk der er, I ved, bange.
01:08
It's like every year it's the last minute
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Det er som om at det hvert år, er det sidste minut
01:11
that we can do something about the war with Iran.
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hvor vi kan gøre noget ved krigen med Iran.
01:14
It's like, if we don't act now, it's too late forever,
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Det er som om at handler vi ikke nu, er det for sent for evigt,
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for 10 years now.
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i de sidste 10 år.
01:20
So at some point it became, you know, to me,
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Så på et tidspunkt blev det, I ved, for mig,
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I'm a graphic designer, so I made posters about it
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jeg er grafisk designer, så jeg lavede plakater om det
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and I posted the one I just showed you before.
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og jeg slog den jeg viste jer før op.
01:29
Most of the time, I make posters, I post them on Facebook,
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Som regel laver jeg plakater, slår dem op på Facebook,
01:32
my friends like it, don't like it,
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min venner kan lide dem, kan ikke lide dem,
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most of the time don't like it, don't share it,
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som regel kan de ikke lide dem, deler dem ikke,
01:36
don't nothing,
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gør intet,
01:38
and it's another day.
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og det var så den dag.
01:40
So I went to sleep, and that was it for me.
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Så jeg gik i seng, og det var det for mig.
01:44
And later on in the night, I woke up
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Og senere den nat vågnede jeg op
01:47
because I'm always waking up in the night,
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fordi jeg altid vågner op om natten,
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and I went by the computer and I see all these red dots,
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og jeg gik på computeren og kunne se alle disse røde prikker,
01:51
you know, on Facebook, which I've never seen before.
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I ved, på Facebook, hvilket jeg aldrig har set før.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
01:55
And I was like, "What's going on?"
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Og jeg tænkte, "Hvad sker her?"
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So I come to the computer and I start looking on,
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Så jeg gik på computeren og begyndte at se på det,
02:01
and suddenly I see many people talking to me,
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og pludselig ser jeg mange folk snakke til mig,
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most of them I don't know,
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de fleste kender jeg ikke,
02:07
and a few of them from Iran,
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og nogle få er fra Iran,
02:09
which is -- What?
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hvilket er -- Hvad?
02:13
Because you have to understand,
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For I skal forstå,
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in Israel we don't talk with people from Iran.
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i Israel snakker vi ikke med folk fra Iran.
02:19
We don't know people from Iran.
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Vi kender ikke folk fra Iran.
02:21
It's like, on Facebook, you have friends only from --
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Det er ligesom, på Facebook, der har man kun venner fra --
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it's like your neighbors are your friends on Facebook.
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det er ligesom ens naboer der er ens venner på Facebook.
02:29
And now people from Iran are talking to me.
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Og nu snakker folk fra Iran pludselig til mig.
02:31
So I start answering this girl, and she's telling me
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Så jeg begyndte at svare en pige, og hun fortæller mig
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she saw the poster and she asked her family to come,
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at hun så plakaten og bad sin familie om at komme,
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because they don't have a computer, she asked her family
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fordi de ikke har en computer, hun bad sin familie
02:41
to come to see the poster, and they're all sitting in the living room crying.
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komme og se plakaten, og de sidder alle i stuen og græder.
02:46
So I'm like, whoa.
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Så jeg er helt, wow.
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I ask my wife to come, and I tell her, you have to see that.
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Jeg beder min kone komme, og jeg fortæller hende at hun skal se det her.
02:51
People are crying, and she came, she read the text,
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Folk græder, og hun kom, hun læste teksten
02:54
and she started to cry.
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og så begyndte hun at græde.
02:57
And everybody's crying now. (Laughter)
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Og nu græder alle. (Latter)
02:59
So I don't know what to do, so my first reflex,
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Jeg ved ikke hvad jeg skal gøre, så min første indskydelse,
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as a graphic designer, is, you know, to show everybody
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som grafisk designer, er, I ved, at vise alle
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what I'd just seen, and people started to see them
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hvad jeg lige har set, og folk begyndte at se dem
03:09
and to share them, and that's how it started.
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og dele dem, og det er sådan det startede.
03:12
The day after, when really it became a lot of talking,
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Dagen efter, da der virkelig blev meget snak,
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I said to myself, and my wife said to me,
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sagde jeg til mig selv, og min kone sagde til mig,
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I also want a poster,
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jeg vil også have en plakat,
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so this is her. (Laughter)
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så dette er hende. (Latter)
03:23
Because it's working, put me in a poster now.
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Fordi det virker, så sæt også mig på en plakat.
03:28
But more seriously, I was like, okay, these ones work,
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Men mere seriøst, jeg tænkte, okay, de her virker,
03:31
but it's not just about me, it's about people from Israel
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men det handler ikke kun om mig, det handler om folk fra Israel
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who want to say something.
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som har noget at sige.
03:35
So I'm going to shoot all the people I know, if they want,
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Så jeg vil fotografere alle de folk jeg kender, hvis de vil,
03:38
and I'm going to put them in a poster and I'm going to share them.
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og jeg vil sætte dem på en plakat og dele dem.
03:40
So I went to my neighbors and friends and students
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Så jeg gik til mine naboer og venner og studerende
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and I just asked them, give me a picture, I will make you a poster.
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og spurgte dem blot, giv mig et billede, jeg vil lave dig til en plakat.
03:48
And that's how it started. And that's how, really,
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Og sådan startede det. Og det sådan det, for alvor,
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it's unleashed, because suddenly people
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slap løs, for pludselig kunne folk
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from Facebook, friends and others,
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fra Facebook, venner og andre,
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just understand that they can be part of it.
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bare forstå at de kan være en del af det.
03:59
It's not just one dude making one poster,
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Det er ikke bare en fyr der laver en plakat,
04:01
it's -- we can be part of it, so they start sending me pictures
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det er -- vi kan være en del af det, så de begyndte at sende billeder til mig
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and ask me, "Make me a poster. Post it.
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og spurgte mig, "Gør mig til en plakat. Slå den op.
04:07
Tell the Iranians we from Israel love you too."
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Fortæl Iranerne, at vi fra Israel også elsker dem."
04:12
It became, you know, at some point it was really, really intense.
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Det blev, I ved, nogle gange var det, virkelig intenst.
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I mean, so many pictures, so I asked friends
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Jeg mener, så mange billeder, så jeg bad nogle venner
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to come, graphic designers most of them,
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komme, de fleste grafiske designere,
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to make posters with me, because I didn't have the time.
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og lave plakater med mig, fordi jeg ikke havde tid.
04:25
It was a huge amount of pictures.
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Det var en enorm mængde billeder.
04:28
So for a few days, that's how my living room was.
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Så i nogle dage, var det sådan min stue var.
04:31
And we received Israeli posters, Israeli images,
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Og ved modtog israelske plakater, israelske billeder,
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but also lots of comments, lots of messages from Iran.
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men også mange kommentarer, mange beskeder fra Iran.
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And we took these messages and we made posters out of it,
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Og vi tog disse beskeder, og vi lavede plakater ud af dem,
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because I know people: They don't read, they see images.
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for jeg kender folk: De læser ikke, de ser billeder.
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If it's an image, they may read it.
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Hvis det er et billede, så læser de det måske.
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So here are a few of them.
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Så her nogle få af dem.
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("You are my first Israelian friend. I wish we both get rid of our idiot politicians, anyway nice to see you!")
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("Du er min første israelske ven. Jeg ønsker at vi begge slipper fa med vores idiotiske politikere, nå det var rart at se dig!")
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("I love that blue. I love that star. I love that flag.") This one is really moving for me because it's the story
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("Jeg elsker den blå. Jeg elsker den stjerne. Jeg elsker det flag.")
Den her er virkelig rørende for mig, for det er historien
Den her er virkelig rørende for mig, for det er historien
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of a girl who has been raised in Iran
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om en pige som er blevet opdraget i Iran
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to walk on an Israeli flag to enter her school every morning,
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med at træde på et israelsk flag for at komme ind på sin skole hver morgen,
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and now that she sees the posters that we're sending,
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og nu hvor hun ser plakaterne vi sender,
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she starts -- she said that she changed her mind,
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begynder hun -- hun siger at hun ændrede sin holdning,
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and now she loves that blue, she loves that star,
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og nu elsker hun den blå, hun elsker den stjerne,
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and she loves that flag, talking about the Israeli flag,
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og hun elsker det flag, talende om det israelske flag,
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and she wished that we'd meet and come to visit one another,
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og hun ville ønske at vi kunne mødes og komme og besøge hinanden,
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and just a few days after I posted the first poster.
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og det bare få dage efter jeg slog den første plakat op.
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The day after,
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Dagen efter,
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Iranians started to respond with their own posters.
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begyndte iranere at svare med deres egne plakater.
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They have graphic designers. What? (Laughter)
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De har grafiske designere. Hvad? (Latter)
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Crazy, crazy.
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Skørt, skørt.
05:40
So you can see they are still shy, they don't want to show their faces,
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I kan se de stadig er lidt generte, de vil ikke vise deres ansigter,
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but they want to spread the message.
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men de vil sprede budskabet.
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They want to respond. They want to say the same thing.
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De vil svare. De vil sige det samme.
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So. And now it's communication.
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Så. Og nu er det kommunikation.
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It's a two-way story. It's Israelis and Iranians
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Det er en to-vejs historie. Det er israelere og iranere
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sending the same message, one to each other.
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der sender den samme besked til hinanden.
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("My Israeli Friends. I don't hate you. I don't want War.")
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("Mine Israelske Venner. Jeg hader Jer ikke. Jeg ville ikke have krig.")
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This never happened before, and this is two people
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Dette skete aldrig før, og det er to folk
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supposed to be enemies, we're on the verge of a war,
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der burde være fjender, vi er på kanten af en krig,
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and suddenly people on Facebook are starting to say,
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og pludselig begynder folk på Facebook at sige,
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"I like this guy. I love those guys."
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"Jeg kan lide denne fyr. Jeg elsker de gutter."
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And it became really big at some point.
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Og det bliver virkelig stort på et tidspunkt.
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And then it became news.
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Og så blev det nyheder.
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Because when you're seeing the Middle East, you see only the bad news.
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For når du ser mellemøsten, ser du kun de dårlige nyheder.
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And suddenly, there is something that was happening
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Og pludselig, der skete noget
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that was good news. So the guys on the news,
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der var gode nyheder. Så folkene på nyheder
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they say, "Okay, let's talk about this."
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de sagde, "Okay, lad os tale om det her."
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And they just came, and it was so much,
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Og det kom bare, og det var så stort,
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I remember one day, Michal,
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jeg kan huske en dag, Michal,
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she was talking with the journalist, and she was asking him,
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hun snakkede med journalisten, og hun spurgte ham,
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"Who's gonna see the show?"And he said, "Everybody."
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"Hvem vil se udsendelsen?" Og han sagde, "Alle."
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So she said, "Everybody in Palestine, in where? Israel?
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Så sagde hun, "Alle i Palæstina, hvor? Israel?
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Who is everybody?""Everybody."
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Hvem er alle?" "Alle."
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They said, "Syria?" "Syria."
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De sagde, "Syrien?" "Syrien."
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"Lebanon?""Lebanon."
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"Libanon?" "Libanon."
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At some point, he just said, "40 million people are going to see you today.
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På et tidspunkt sagde han bare, "40 millioner mennesker vil se dig i dag.
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It's everybody." The Chinese.
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det er alle." Kineserne.
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And we were just at the beginning of the story.
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Og vi var kun ved begyndelsen af historien.
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Something crazy also happened.
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Der skete også noget skørt.
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Every time a country started talking about it,
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Hver gang et land begyndte at tale om det,
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like Germany, America, wherever,
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såsom Tyskland, Amerika, hvor end,
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a page on Facebook popped up with the same logo
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kom der en side på Facebook med det samme logo
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with the same stories, so at the beginning
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med de samme historie, så i begyndelsen
07:23
we had "Iran-Loves-Israel," which is an Iranian
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havde vi "Iran-Elsker-Israel," hvilket er en iraner
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sitting in Tehran, saying, "Okay, Israel loves Iran?
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siddende i Teheran, der siger, "Okay, Israel elsker Iran?
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I give you Iran-Loves-Israel."
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Jeg giver jer Iran-Elsker-Israel."
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You have Palestine-Loves-Israel.
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Der er Palæstina-Elsker-Israel.
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You have Lebanon that just -- a few days ago.
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Der er Libanon der bare -- for få dage siden.
07:38
And this whole list of pages on Facebook
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Og hele denne liste af sider på Facebook
07:41
dedicated to the same message,
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er dedikeret til det samme budskab,
07:43
to people sending their love, one to each other.
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hvor folk sender deres kærlighed, en til en.
07:49
The moment I really understood that something was happening,
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Fra det øjeblik forstod jeg virkelig at noget var i gære,
07:53
a friend of mine told me,
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en af mine venner fortalte mig,
07:55
"Google the word 'Israel.'"
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"Google ordet 'Israel.'"
07:57
And those were the first images on those days
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Og dette var de første billeder i de dage
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that popped up from Google
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der kom frem fra Google
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when you were typing, "Israel" or "Iran."
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når du skrev, "Israel" eller "Iran."
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We really changed how people see the Middle East.
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Vi ændrede virkelig hvordan folk ser på Mellemøsten.
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Because you're not in the Middle East.
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For du er ikke i Mellemøsten.
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You're somewhere over there, and then you want to see the Middle East,
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Du er et sted der ovre, og så når du vil se Mellemøsten,
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so you go on Google and you say, "Israel,"
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så går du på Google og siger, "Israel,"
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and they give you the bad stuff.
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og de giver dig dårlige ting.
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And for a few days you got those images.
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Og i nogle få dage fik du de billeder.
08:23
Today the Israel-Loves-Iran page
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I er Israel-Elsker-Iran siden
08:25
is this number, 80,831, and two million people last week
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dette tal, 80.831, og to millioner folk besøgte i sidste uge
08:31
went on the page and shared, liked, I don't know,
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side og delte, synes godt om, jeg ved ikke,
08:33
commented on one of the photos.
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kommenterede på et af billederne.
08:36
So for five months now, that's what we are doing,
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Så i fem måneder nu, er det hvad vi laver,
08:41
me, Michal, a few of my friends, are just making images.
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jeg, Michal, nogle få af mine venner, vi laver udelukkende billeder.
08:45
We're showing a new reality
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Vi viser en ny virkelighed
08:48
by just making images
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blot ved at lave billeder
08:50
because that's how the world perceives us.
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for det er sådan verden opfatter os.
08:53
They see images of us, and they see bad images.
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De ser billeder af os, og de ser dårlige billeder.
08:56
So we're working on making good images. End of story.
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Så vi arbejder på at lave gode billeder. Slut på fortællingen.
09:01
Look at this one. This is the Iran-Loves-Israel page.
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Se på den her. Dette er Iran-Elsker-Israel siden.
09:05
This is not the Israel-Loves-Iran. This is not my page.
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Det er ikke Israel-Elsker-Iran. Det er ikke min side.
09:08
This is a guy in Tehran on the day of remembrance
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Det er en fyr i Teheran på mindedagen
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of the Israeli fallen soldier
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for de faldne israelske soldater
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putting an image of an Israeli soldier on his page.
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der sætter et billede af en israelsk soldat på sin side.
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This is the enemy.
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Dette er fjenden.
09:22
What?
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Hvad?
09:23
("Our heartfelt condolences to the families who lost their dearests in terror attack in Bulgaria")
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("Vor dybfølte kondolencer til de familier der mistede deres kæreste i terrorangrebene i Bulgarien")
09:25
And it's going both ways.
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Og det går begge veje.
09:27
It's like, we are showing respect, one to each other.
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Der er som om, at vi viser respekt til hinanden.
09:31
And we're understanding. And you show compassion.
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Og vi er forstående. Og man viser medfølelse.
09:36
And you become friends.
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Og man bliver venner.
09:41
And at some point, you become friends on Facebook,
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Og på et tidspunkt bliver du venner på Facebook,
09:44
and you become friends in life.
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og du bliver venner i livet.
09:46
You can go and travel and meet people.
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Man kan rejse ud og møde folk.
09:49
And I was in Munich a few weeks ago.
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Og jeg var i München for få uger siden.
09:52
I went there to open an exposition about Iran
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Jeg tog dertil for at åbne en udstilling om Iran
09:56
and I met there with people from the page
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og der mødtes jeg med folk fra siden
09:59
that told me, "Okay, you're going to be in Europe,
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der fortalte mig, "Okay, du er i Europa,
10:01
I'm coming. I'm coming from France, from Holland,
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Jeg kommer. Jeg kommer fra Frankrig, fra Holland,
10:04
from Germany," of course, and from Israel people came,
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fra Tyskland," selvfølgelig, og fra Israel kom folk,
10:06
and we just met there for the first time in real life.
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og vi mødtes der for første gang i det virkelig liv.
10:11
I met with people that are supposed to be my enemies
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Jeg mødtes med folk, der burde være mine fjender
10:15
for the first time. And we just shake hands,
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for første gang. Og vi gav hinanden hånden,
10:18
and have a coffee and a nice discussion,
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og drak en kop kaffe og havde en god diskussion,
10:20
and we talk about food and basketball.
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og vi snakkede om mad og basketball.
10:23
And that was the end of it.
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Og det var slutningen på det.
10:24
Remember that image from the beginning?
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Kan I huske billedet fra begyndelsen?
10:27
At some point we met in real life, and we became friends.
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På et tidspunkt mødtes vi i det virkelige liv, og vi blev venner.
10:36
And it goes the other way around.
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Og det virker også den anden vej.
10:38
Some girl that we met on Facebook
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En pige som vi mødte på Facebook
10:41
never been in Israel, born and raised in Iran,
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der har aldrig været i Israel, født og opvokset i Iran,
10:44
lives in Germany, afraid of Israelis
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bor i Tyskland, er bange for israelere
10:48
because of what she knows about us,
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på grund af hvad hun ved om os,
10:50
decides after a few months of talking on the Internet
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beslutter efter nogle måneders snak på internettet
10:53
with some Israelis to come to Israel,
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med nogle israelere at komme til Israel,
10:56
and she gets on the plane and arrives at Ben Gurion
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og hun hopper på flyet og ankommer ved Ben Gurion
11:01
and says, "Okay, not that big a deal."
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og siger, "Okay, det var ikke så slemt."
11:07
So a few weeks ago, the stress is getting higher,
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Så for nogle få uger siden, stresset bliver værre,
11:11
so we start this new campaign
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startede vi denne nye kampagne
11:13
called "Not ready to die in your war."
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kaldet "Ikke klar til at dø i jeres krig."
11:16
I mean, it's plus/minus the same message,
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Jeg mener, det er plus/minus det samme budskab,
11:19
but we wanted really to add some aggressivity to it.
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men vi ville virkelig gerne tilføje lidt aggressivitet til det.
11:23
And again, something amazing happened,
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Og igen skete der noget utroligt,
11:26
something that we didn't have on the first wave of the campaign.
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noget som vi ikke havde i den første bølge af kampagnen.
11:29
Now people from Iran, the same ones who were shy
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Folk fra Iran, de samme der var generte
11:34
at the first campaign and just sent, you know,
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ved den første kampagne og bare sendte, I ved,
11:36
their foot and half their faces,
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deres fod og det halve af deres ansigter,
11:38
now they're sending their faces, and they're saying,
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sendte nu deres ansigter, og de siger,
11:40
"Okay, no problem, we're into it. We are with you."
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"Okay, intet problem, vi er med på den. Vi er med jer."
11:49
Just read where those guys are from.
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Bare prøv at læs hvor disse folk er fra.
11:53
And for every guy from Israel,
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Og for enhver fra Israel,
11:55
you've got someone from Iran.
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har man en fra Iran.
12:06
Just people sending their pictures.
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Bare folk der sender deres billeder.
12:27
Crazy, yes?
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Skørt, ikke?
12:29
So --
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Så --
12:30
(Applause)
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(Applaus)
12:40
So you may ask yourself, who is this dude?
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Så kan man spørge sig selv, hvem er den fyr?
12:47
My name is Ronny Edry, and I'm 41, I'm an Israeli,
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Mit navn er Ronny Edry, og jeg er 41, jeg er israeler,
12:51
I'm a father of two, I'm a husband,
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jeg er far til to, jeg er husbond,
12:55
and I'm a graphic designer. I'm teaching graphic design.
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og jeg er en grafisk designer. Jeg underviser i grafisk design.
13:00
And I'm not that naive, because a lot of the time
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Og jeg er ikke så naiv, for ofte
13:04
I've been asked, many times I've been asked, "Yeah, but,
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bliver jeg spurgt, mange gange er jeg blevet spurgt, "Ja ja, men
13:07
this is really naive, sending flowers over, I mean — "
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det her er virkelig naivt, at sende blomster over, jeg mener --"
13:10
I was in the army. I was in the paratroopers for three years,
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Jeg var i hæren. Jeg var i faldskærmstropperne i tre år,
13:14
and I know how it looks from the ground.
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og jeg ved hvordan det ser ud fra jordhøjde.
13:18
I know how it can look really bad.
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Jeg ved hvordan det virkelig kan se slemt ud.
13:22
So to me, this is the courageous thing to do,
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Så for mig, er dette den modige ting at gøre,
13:26
to try to reach the other side before it's too late,
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at prøve at nå ind til den anden side før det er for sent,
13:30
because when it's going to be too late, it's going to be too late.
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for når det bliver for sent, så er det for sent.
13:32
And sometimes war is inevitable, sometimes,
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Og nogle gange er krig uundgåeligt, nogle gange,
13:36
but maybe [with] effort, we can avoid it.
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men måske [med] indsats, kan vi undgå det.
13:40
Maybe as people, because especially in Israel,
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Måske som et folk, fordi især i Israel,
13:44
we're in a democracy. We have the freedom of speech,
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er vi i et demokrati. Vi har ytringsfrihed,
13:47
and maybe that little thing can change something.
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og måske kan den lille ting ændre noget.
13:50
And really, we can be our own ambassadors.
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Og i virkeligheden kan vi være vore egne ambassadører.
13:55
We can just send a message and hope for the best.
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Vi kan sende et budskab og håbe på det bedste.
14:01
So I want to ask Michal, my wife, to come with me
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Så jeg vil bede Michal, min kone, om at komme med mig
14:04
on the stage just to make with you one image,
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på scenen, bare for at skabe et billede med jer,
14:09
because it's all about images.
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for det hele handler om billeder.
14:11
And maybe that image will help us change something.
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Og måske kan det billede hjælpe os med at ændre noget.
14:15
Just raise that. Exactly.
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Bare løft det op. Præcis.
14:19
And I'm just going to take a picture of it,
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Jeg jeg tager bare et billede af det,
14:21
and I'm just going to post it on Facebook
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og jeg slår det op på Facebook
14:24
with kind of "Israelis for peace" or something.
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med noget i stil med "Israelitter for fred" eller noget.
14:32
Oh my God.
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Åh min Gud.
14:35
Don't cry.
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Lad være med at græd.
14:37
Thank you guys.
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Mange tak venner.
14:39
(Applause)
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(Applaus)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ronny Edry - Graphic DesignerRonny Edry of Israel created The Peace Factory, an online movement for peace in the Middle East, when he posted a Facebook image that declared "Iranians, we will never bomb your country."
Why you should listen
Ronny Edry is a graphic designer, teacher and father. While he often posted images on Facebook without much fanfare, in March of 2012 one of his images garnered international attention. The image showed him with his daughter, along with the words “Iranians, we will never bomb your country. We heart you.” The image became a catalyst for dialogue between the people of two nations on the brink of war -- and started an online movement. Today, The Peace Factory is connecting people throughout the Middle East, giving them a voice and a face.
Edry grew up in Paris, France, and has lived in Israel since 1989. Along with his work on the Peace Factory, he is the owner and founder of Pushpin, a school for art and design in Tel Aviv. He himself graduated with honors from the BezIalel Academy of Art and Design, and he is a staff member teaching visual communication in design academies in Israel. He has received awards for his works as a graphic designer and is also an illustrator and author of graphic novels.
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