[PAA-Discuss] NAKBA-Unbelievable forgiveness

[robert graham]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:23 PM, robert graham <gram.graham at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> take a look at this video before they take it off youtube
>
> http://quietube.com/v.php/http%3a/www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z2Znc159x1M
>   On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Lee Loe <LeeLoe at igc.org> wrote:
>
>>    And I like the Native Americans and their belief that the Great Spirit
>> was in everything, even the trees. Lee****
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>> *From:* discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Bob Carter
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 21, 2011 12:36 PM
>> *To:* nojusticenopeace at yahoogroups.com; discuss at paa-tx.org;
>> notinourname at yahoogroups.com
>> *Subject:* [PAA-Discuss] NAKBA-Unbelievable forgiveness****
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>>  Greetings all,****
>>
>>      I am not out there selling Christianity or any other religion but I
>> do like the old Quaker statement: "there is that of God in all persons." The
>> writer of the excerpt and the link below just happens to be a catholic
>> and an extraordinary person, in my opinion, in that he has no animosity
>> toward the Jews and can forgive those who put he, his family and
>> others through hell in the Nakba of 1948.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>>                                Excerpt ****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>>         "Those wretched days and nights in mid-July of 1948 continue as a
>> lifelong nightmare because Zionists took away our home of many centuries.
>> For me and a million other Palestinian Arabs, tragedy had marred our lives
>> forever.
>>        Throughout his life my father remembered and suffered. For
>> thirty-one years before his death in 1979, he kept the large metal key to
>> our house in Lydda.
>>        After more than four decades I still bear the emotional scars of
>> the Zionist invasion. Yet, as an adult, I see what I did not fully
>> understand then: that the Jews are also human beings, themselves driven by
>> fear, victims of history's worst outrages, rabidly, sometimes almost
>> mindlessly searching for security. Lamentably, they have victimized my
>> people. ****
>>
>>        Four years after our flight from Lydda I dedicated my life to the
>> service of Jesus Christ. Like me and my fellow refugees, Jesus had lived in
>> adverse circumstances, often with only a stone for a pillow. As with his
>> fellow Jews two thousand years ago and the Palestinians today, an outside
>> power controlled his homeland-my homeland. They tortured and killed him in
>> Jerusalem, only ten miles from Ramallah, and my new home. He was the victim
>> of terrible indignities. Nevertheless, Jesus prayed on behalf of those who
>> engineered his death, "Father, forgive them..."
>> Can I do less?" ****
>>
>>  ****
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>>                 Please read the the entire short article. ****
>>
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>> http://www.alnakba.org/testimony/audeh.htm****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> You will also find this article in our website
>> www.justiceforpalestinians.com under picture 4.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Comments anyone?****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Bob****
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