Palestinian & Israeli activists share a vision of peace
4/16/202643 min
Israeli Maoz Inon's parents were killed by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks. Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah's brother died after being tortured in an Israeli military prison. Their new book, ‘The Future Is Peace,’ chronicles their eight day drive across Israel and Palestine, through checkpoints, holy sites, refugee camps, and separation walls.
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tonya Mosley, and my guests today have each paid a profound price on opposite sides of a conflict that has lasted more than a century with no signs of stopping. One is Israeli, the other is Palestinian. They call themselves brothers. And what brought them together is grief and a decision each of them made about what to do with it. Maoz Inon's parents were murdered by Hamas on October seventh, twenty twenty-three, among the twelve hundred Israelis killed that day in the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. In the war that followed, more than seventy-five thousand Palestinians were killed. The US helped arm and fund it, and the violence has now spread into Lebanon and Iran. But within days of his parents' murder, Maoz spoke. His family was not seeking revenge. Instead, they were seeking peace. Those words reached Palestinian peacemaker Aziz Abu Sarah. Years before, when Aziz was only nine, his own brother had been arrested and tortured in an Israeli military prison for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers.