Arabs for Truth
Dear Nonie,
What better place to enjoy the bulk of your book then on an El Al Flight from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv? There was plenty of time for me to read and re-read favorite passages. Truth is the message of your book and truth will help set this conflict free and end it. You are as they say "her father's daughter" and in his memory you will accomplish much, perhaps event more then you can imagine. So many people around the world will join your grassroots organization and help reveal and live with truth. I hope to offer much more support in the future. At the moment I'm visiting my ailing mother in Tel Aviv. We inherit all the good and sometimes not so good traits our parents instilled in us. As each generation comes forth, the good from the previous generation is embellished in the new while the bad, is edited out, hopefully.
May you be blessed with many years of good health, may your children follow in your steps, if they wish, and may our wish for peace between Arabs and Jews come in our life time. To be cont.
Best wishes,
Avner
"I want to say to you that I love Isreal from my heart and I hope in any day in soon future to be one of Israel socity but i don't know how ....."
From an Egyptian who works in the State of Qatar
2007.11.11
Jews do not hate Arabs
2007.11.07 Hi
As I read your letters from Israel I want to underline that jews do not hate arabs.
I want to say that I have lived in Israel for 13 years as non jewish and we lived very close with the jews in the land. Since I grew up in the country (6 to 22 years of age) during that time I always heard that arabs and jews could make a paradise in the middle east. I never heard a jew speak of hate. I never heard a jew blame the Germans for the holocaust. All they said was let us forget and make a better day.
A short story:
A friend of mine have a garage for trucks in Israel. An arab left his truck for repair. The worker forgot to put in a small security pin for the breaks and told the owner. The owner jumped in his car and drove to the arab village wich was very far away, and waited for the truck to come home. As he waited he saw people gather in a building so he went to the building ,it was a big hall and people sat along side the wall. As he sat there the arabs spoke so much bad about Israel and jews the my firend said to me "How much can you take?" (he know arabis since he came from Iraq) so he spoke up and and told them that he was Israeli, jew and he shows them the security pin and told them why he was there only so that they would not blame him for delibratly forget the security pin. He left the room and by that time the truck owner had come home and he mounted the pin and drove from the town late that evening. He told me that he was very scared as they could have shot him as he drove down the hill.
The garage had in 1989 about 20 muslim workers of total 50 workers.
What I want to say is that Israel don't hate the arabs/mulsims/Palestinians all they want is to live in peace and make a better place to live in.
My best math and physics teacher in Israel is a muslim.
Regards from Dan Johansson
Sweden
Life is to short to be consumed by hatred
Dear Mrs. Darwish and Arab/Muslim friends,
I am a 27 year old Jewish man from Holland The Hague. I am a member of the orthodox Jewish congragtion here. Reading through the ´´Arab´´reactions about Israel I became happy. A overwhelming feeling of brotherhood came over me. I have always thought if we could settle our problems and work together we could make the Middle East flourish! I do not and I know many Jews do not feel any hatred or negative feelings towards Arabs or Muslims what so ever!!
Life is to short to be consumed by hatred....from both sides.. My wishes are that as many people as possible speak out and be positive about peace and reconciliation. We have to look to the future..
Salaam Aleikum, Shalom Aleichem..
Alexander L.Y. van der Linden
Message from Egyptian in USA to Hero Nonie
In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the MERCIFUL First of all i would like to thank u so much for ur time reading my humble email and i wish u and all ur families and beloved are in the best of conditions. It gives me more pride of my self as an egyptian living in USA , FL and i do feel so proud of u and all u r doing for the sake of salam between all human being on this planet. My name is mahmoud and i really do feel all u r fighting for and i know how much hard is it but i do believe in u and u can do it..... i studied in Al-azhar educational institutes for long time and i completely understand all u say about Al-azhar and the double face of islamic Da`wah which means that in the east they are talking about jihad only as the war, fight, bomobing and that is the real terorism and here in the west they claims the jihad to refer to the self and inner struggle... to be honest i found it very very hard to find any reason to hate israel or jewish. I swear to God that i do respect them and i admire their way of harmony, education and organized life which astonishes me all the time Today when we look around we found that arabs and islamists are the only people allover the world who are calling for revenge, bloody war, throwing israel in the sea, terrorism and all those scaring vocabularies which reflect the ugly face of misunderstanding the great islam which is a peace call not a war call. I`m so proud of my self as a muslim but i really do feel so ashamed of majority of muslim allover the world who are only taking israel and jews as the enemiest enemy.....why????why??? and for how long????? and how can we stop such hatred???? I know and realize why do they call u infidel but i see that as a crown on ur head to be a prove of ur love for the peace and i really do respect and love u the peace maker I`m a muslim and i remember such a beautiful verse mentioned in the new testment of the bible which means: BLESSED ARE THE PEACE MAKER FOR THEY ARE CALLED SONS OF GOD and the title SON OF GOD means like u r so beloved to God the way the father loves his son. I do offer all my help to u..and i would be so happy if i get any answer to my humble email. Muslim all over the world remember what happened when prophet muhammad (Peace be upon Him) had the chanc and sorounded Makkah and he did nothing but giving AMNESTY and fogiving all the Quraishi people and that was a sign of new white page with his former enemies.
We all know what Quraish did to the prophet and how much harm they caused to him and all his followers but he covered his eyes on all those crimes and he stretched his hand to Quraish again for a new peace era and we know that they all were amazed and astonished of such a holy and noble behaviour from Muhammad - PBUH -. So, Why don`t we do that today?? If we are really claiming that we r following and imitating the prophet's life style, then we should do that long time ago and live in peace with all the people regardless of their races, colors, faiths. I really have alot of things to say concerning such a case which is very easy but muslim are showing it as the most complicated problem.. Please, feel free anytime u like to type to me and i will be so grateful for u
With all my best wishes, hearty prayers.
Yours, the peace seeker
Mahmoud Ibrahim
Two very important verses from the Qur'an regarding hatred and making peace with one's enemies.
1. Hatred:
O ye who believe! Be steadfast witnesses for Allah in equity, and let not hatred of any people* seduce you that ye deal not justly. Deal justly, that is nearer to your duty. Observe your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is informed of what you do.
- AL-MA'IDAH The TABLESPREAD - SURAH V:8
* That includes Jews and Israelis.
2. Making Peace with One's Enemies
It may be that Allah will grant affection (and friendship) between you and those whom ye (now) hold as enemies. For Allah has power (over all things), and Allah is Forgiving, Most Merciful.
-AL-MUMTAHANA The WOMAN TO BE EXAMINED - SURAH LX:7 |
