The All Nations Café was a cultural hospitality project founded by a team of Israelis, Palestinians and internationals in

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, near the

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in 2003, during the

Second Intifada The Second Intifada (; ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its Israeli-occupied territories, occupation from 2000. Starting as a civilian uprising in Jerusalem and October 2000 prot ...

. In 2004 and 2005, the All Nations Café expanded to include musicians and cultural artists, and produced events in other locations, including the

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and

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, and the

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. In 2006, the All Nations Café launched weekly cultural gatherings of Palestinians and Israelis near Ein Hanya Spring in the historical No man's land area between

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and

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. These gatherings expanded to include summer camps, agricultural work with local farmers, and nature cleanup campaigns. One unique feature of the All Nations Café's work was its lack of political agenda, and its accessibility to people from diverse backgrounds, including poor and rich, fighters and peacemakers, civilians and soldiers, refugees and settlers, women and men, persons with disabilities, people of various faiths, etc. In 2008, the All Nations Cafe team led a "Holy Land Caravan" through Jerusalem and the West Bank, producing a documentary film with the same title.

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