"An enemy is one whose story we have not heard"
A Message from Gaza to people in Israel
Sisters and Brothers,
On the light of the candles I received some of neighbors and friends. We didn’t light the candle for a birthday party, or to have a romantic evening. We did that because we don’t like the darkness, as a result of shortage of electricity, so in the Gaza Strip, most of evenings we have to light the candles. I smiled while I was looking to the light of candle, it seemed to me the light was dancing when the wind below and his it. I told my neighbors and friends, the light won and defeat the darkness so the darkness will not last forever. Friends and neighbors, talked about the Israeli election and how it will be after the new government in Israel. That’s encouraged me to speak out and to tell them about the wonderful messages I read in the website “messages for Gaza”. They were astonished and surprised to know that we have true heroes in Israel who believes in peace and who suffer with us when we suffer. My friends and neighbors asked me when we have power to write to you, and tell you that you are not our enemies, we are cousins and some of those neighbors have friends in Israel and they used to work together for many years, so why do those friends can’t see each other any more? Why does politics destroy and ruin the relationship between humans?
In my point of view it is the fear, the leaders from Israel and Palestine are very cowards, they are not brave leaders. Because they even never tried to meet, they never tried to speak to each other. The cowards will never establish peace; they want all of us in Israeli and Palestinian society to be scared as they are. They want all of us to be salved by false ideas about their security. I pray one day we all can meet in some place if that is not possible to meet in this holy land may be we can meet in some other place to send our message to all those cowards, We have to say it in one voice, we are one in Humanity and we don’t want to be in any conflict, we are not ready to lose any one of our beloved ones. We are looking to coordinate with each other to have bright future and to add some good values to our children.
With love from Gaza
Ali
A Message from Gaza to people in Israel
My name is Tawfig Ibrm Abu Mandil from Gaza Strip ,I send you this Email as a kind of appreciation to what you write in your website. After I visited my friend Ali, and read all what he has send to you and what you write I have decided to share my ideas with you here.
I am a Social worker, so according to my job I see lots of tragic scenes, and I heared lots of tragic story from those who have lost their homes in the unfair war on Gaza, all of those people usually repeat the same question, why do they have to suffer by the Israeli army?
Before reading your messages I never imagined that there are some ones who believe in peace and they don’t accept what the Israeli army has done to the civilians in Gaza. All what I like to say here, please tell your politicians to spend the money on developing not on buying more mass destructive weapons, teach your children that the army has to rescue the civilians and to protect the children not to kill innocent.
At last I hope you can change the mentality of your politicians to accept the idea of peace and justice for all people in the holy land.
With appreciation from Gaza
Tawfig
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