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Rosh Ha-Shanah Shacharit 5772 – 29th September 2011
A FUTURE FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE?
LEARNING FROM A MESSENGER OF PEACE
A new year has begun. Will it be any different than the old one? Is there anything we can do to make it different, so that it is, truly, a new year? Let me tell you a story:
A man is walking along the seashore as the tide ebbs, revealing a multitude of stranded starfish. Soon he comes upon a young girl, who is picking up the starfish one by one and returning them to the sea. So he asks the girl, “What are you doing?” And she replies, “They will die if I don’t get them back into the water.” “But there are so many of them,” the man says. “How can anything you do make a difference?” The girl picks up another starfish and carries it to the sea. “It makes a difference to this one.”
The man who tells the story is a living example of an individual, who impelled by his own personal experience, is determined to do what he can to make a difference, and create a new future. His name is Izzeldin Abuelaish. Born in 1955 and brought up in poverty in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, Izzeldin Abuelaish trained as a doctor in Cairo, and went on to work in Israel as a gynaecologist, helping infertile Israeli and Palestinian couples to conceive. In 2
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More than six months ago in the pages of this newspaper, after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel that killed at least 1,200 men, women and children and kidnapped several hundred more, we wrote an impassioned plea for both Israelis and Palestinian Muslims to adhere to their teachings that to save one life is to save all of humanity.
We wrote barely a week after the Israeli military invaded Gaza and we asked where these actions were going. Little did we know then but know now that more than 30,000 Palestinian men, women and children have died and that most of Gaza, its hospitals, its homes and its infrastructure, has been destroyed.
And we have to ask: what madness has entered the minds and souls of both Jews and Muslims, two peoples who gave the world the Ten Commandments, a belief in the one God, who were asked by the Creator of the Heavens and Earth to act as examples to the non-believers, to be “a light unto the nations” and to walk the “straight path to God” as the Prophets Moses and Mohammed asked of humanity?
We also described our own efforts to find a common ground between Jews and Muslims in the Greater Portland area. We described how Jews and Muslims, in a newly created organization called Interfaith Maine, stood shoulder to shoulder shortly after 9/11 and proclai