(The Christian Science Monitor) It was the year 2000, and the second Palestinian intifada had just broken out. Ali Abu Awwad was in Saudi Arabia, recovering from an Israeli drive-by shooting, when he received word that an Israeli soldier had shot his brother Youssef in the head at close range.
“He left us a son and a daughter and this huge package of pain and loss and anger,” Abu Awwad said, recalling how part of him wanted revenge. “Then you ask yourself, how many people shall I kill? What could be enough dead Israelis to heal this pain?”
Then his mother, a Palestinian activist who was close to Palestinian fighter-turned-president Yasser Arafat, received a group of bereaved Israeli parents into her home.
