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Dawud Assad: Islam Builder and Religion Linker |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,847 Words, 11,177 Characters |
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The 17-year-old Palestinian youth wriggled through a ditch on the outskirts of his village, the baleful whine of bullets near his head chilling him. Even more bloodcurdling, however, were the screams he heard from his hamlet of Deir Yasin, just three miles west of Jerusalem, as Irgun and Stern irregulars swept through the houses, shooting men, women, and children alike.
It was April 9, 1948, and some 250 ordinary citizens would be slain that day--27 of them from Dawud Assad's extended family, including his beloved 96-year-old grandmother and 2-year-old brother Omar. The Jewish guerrillas, who were fighting to evict the British and create the state of Israel, had adopted a terror tactic they hoped would "ethnically cleanse" the territory of Palestine. And it worked. When people in neighb...
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...st politics, Assad doesn't despair. "I'm actually very optimistic," he proclaims. "I know there's going to be peace in the whole world. Why? Because in the past, people like the Jews and the Palestinians lived with each other, went to the same schools, walked the same streets, ate from the same tables, worked together. They got along well with each other in the past--and they can do it again."
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