Sulaiman Khatib is co-director and co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a bi-national, grassroots nonviolence movement in Israel and Palestine.

He participated in illegal activities such as raising Palestinian flags and writing graffiti as well as throwing stones.

He credits these hunger strikes for teaching him the virtue of patience[8] as well as giving him deep inner strength and fortitude.

"[7] Khatib started to read about Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi; these nonviolence leaders showed him that there was another path to freedom.

[8] At this same time, he started to educate himself about the "enemy": he learned about the history of the Jewish people[6] and he watched Schindler's List, which Khatib credits as changing his life forever.

Combatants for Peace is the only bi-national, grassroots nonviolence movement in the world that was founded by former fighters on both sides of an active conflict.

[2] The Combatants work together in equality and partnership with the goal of spreading their message of peace, security and freedom to both their peoples.

His mother, for example, has to get a permit to go to their family land, since it is beyond the separation wall, and the Palestinian participants in Combatants for Peace are still subject to the complications of living under military rule.