"For me, the other side, the enemy, is not the Palestinian people. For me the struggle is not between Palestinians and Israelis, nor between Jews and Arabs. The fight is between those who seek peace and those who seek war. My people are those who seek peace. My sisters are the bereaved mothers, Israeli and Palestinian, who live in Israel and in Gaza and in the refugee camps. My brothers are the fathers who try to defend their children from the cruel occupation, and are, as I was, unsuccessful in doing so. Although we were born into a different history and speak different tongues there is more that unites us than that which divides us." - Nurit Peled-Elhanan, whose daughter Smadar died in a suicide bombing in 1997.
A talk for the First Sunday before Advent, 5 November 2023.
Referencing Micah 3.5-12, Matthew 24.1-14
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