"These are images of Israel footage shown around the world of conflict and strife between arabs" "and jews but these pictures depicted don't tell the whole story" "Allah Akbar..." "Allah Akbar" "throughout Israel and across the middle east there are countless numbers of Arabs and Jews they've reached a peace agreement" "their stories are different but the claim is the same" "behind the headlines and against the odds there is Peace in Israel" "السلام الممنوع" "القصة ما وراء عناوين الاخبار" "القصة ما وراء عناوين الاخبار" "as another time "Tayseer Abu Saada" and "Maran Rosenbet" would've been mortal enemies but here in the Americans heartland were "Taaz now lives, this Palestinian and Jew has joined forces to tell thousands of people an improbable story about an impossible friendship" "Maran was raised on a Kibbutz in a secular Jewish home he rejected the ways and rules of the more orthodox in his community and rule in to a rebellious teenager living an average life until he entered the army here there is always a suicide bomber" "as a location where my other unit used to meet every Sunday" "22 soldiers died that day among them several of Maran close friends" "I started to develop anger and hatred toward the Arab people and really not been able to trust them, hate took root as did despair, after the army Maran turn to Alcohol.." "I was escaping depression the pain that was in my heart and I just didn't let it out anger toward everything that is happening" "fear and I didn't want to face life so I ran away to a complete different reality.. he eventually left his home land" "I felt there is no value for human life in Israel, people are dying from the right and from the left no one is doing anything and I decided to move on" "Maron landed in the US, hostile and hopeless" "Taaz arrived nearly 20 years earlier carrying similar values..." "I didn't have to be taught to hate Jews this by the nature of the fact that I am a Palestinian and I was raised in that kind of atmosphere have developed that hatred toward the Jewish people because I believe they're the ones who took my land.. solid for me" "and so I hated them with passion" "I was very angry and I just wanted to go away and fight so I ran away from home and went and joined the FATAH forces (PLO) and we have began the fight with Yaser Arafat" "Taaz years with the PLO didn't quell his anger, he brought it with him when he arrived in the US he became a successful restaurant turf but he says he lived an empty life" "until the day a customer has befriended Taaz invited him to have a talk he was trying to tell me who Jesus Christ was and I said no wait a minute he was telling me:" "Jesus Christ is the son of God and he is God" "Sharley I dont believe in this stuff don't even get that far..." "Taaz's parents are devout Moslems who raised their son to follow the Quran" "Taaz embraced Islam traveling to Mecca several times but on March 14/1993 this Moslem man went on a different journey his friend persisted then he went and got his Bible" "and he sat the Bible between the two of us and the minute he did that I got so shook up and scared and I jump away from that Bible he said: why did you jump?" "I said:" "I can't touch that, he said Why?" "I said it is the word of God and why I did I say that when we as Moslems don't believe that the Bible is still valid as the word of God" "it was one of many things Taaz says he still cannot explain about that day a day filled with stunning revelations, release and relieve... the feeling that I felt that moment" "the peace, the joy the burden that lifted off my shoulder like a mountain lifted off my shoulder" "I felt all of that instantly and started reading the old and the new testament he knew that is an Arab he was a descendant of Ismael what he discovered was that Isamel was a man was blessed by God and that just WOW!" "just blow me away what a feeling it was to know that God has included us in the plan of salvation" "Maran would come to the same conclusion in Los Angeles in 1998 a friend invited him to Church" "Maron went. he left agitated filled with questions about God and what the Bible says about Jews" "Maran wanted answers and was challenged to read the Bible for himself" "throughout the all scriptures you find that God loved his people" "Israel" "God loved my people, he loves them so much that even when they continue to sin against him and reject him and reject his word he is still faithful to us" "and he gave that promised messiah that he promised us to save us from all of our iniquities" "God opened my eyes for the truth, and suddenly the word of God became true within months both men, a Jew and a Muslim took risks and broke down traditional boundaries seek after someone forbidden to both by their families and culture" "Maran calls him Yeshua" "Taaz says Yasoo'a others know him as JESUS if you give your life to Yeshua" "the love and the joy and the peace that fills your heart is not going to be perfect but the love and the peace and the joy that will fill your heart will be tremendous could that love and peace truly displace" "decades of anger, Maran and Taaz knew that the scriptures became so simple to their lives, require them to live what they have learned, it was not enough to love their enemies in theory alone even when I said this to the Lord, a good Arab for me is dead Arab" "ان تحب عدوك" "قصة راحيل its night fall in Jerusalem and "Rahel Natanow" has started to make her rounds soon, a car will be filled with people, friends strangers, Arab and the Jews" "the ride is often risky for this Israeli Jew who travels to Palestinian zones to pick up passengers..." "SHALOM..." "Ekh Koream Licha (whats you name)?" "but she says its worth it to bring people together to forge friendships at the talk of peace automobile horn!" "Ahlain, Ahlain (Hi, Hi in arabic language)" "yalla, I hope to see everybody together the Pastors the people, poor people, rich people her vision is reality for nearly 1000 people who have been to her home drawn by her love and concern" "Amir is a Palestinian from Hebron" "I worked for many Jews not one or two or three but many" "and I never met anybody like her she is very nice and good and whatever I want she brings to me" "when you give the love and you open the house and you open the heart and you can hear all the problems that they have, and you want to help them, and you say that I want to try to do something and I want to help you so they love it" "which is why people came back again and again like "Sharat" a Jew we simply became friends and I like how she saw things" "she has a completely different view of the world thats it!" "if Rahel's views are different they are also exiting to many who know her people such in desperate leaf with the hope and joy she seems to resume" "Rahel is happy to tell them why she found both it was in the Bible back in 1994, Rahel started reading about Jesus Yeshua. but first she was afraid if I like, if I speak about Yeshua, no body will stay more my friends or my family" "but it was more strong than me and when I knew that Yeshua he is the Messiah, I couldn't be quiet, and I start just to bring people and they start hearing my heart with Yeshua all the wall fall and you can be ONE" "its the message of the meeting so long with the friendship and the food" "Jews and Arabs sit side by side listening to stories about Jesus although some here they are not sure about God no body denies the peace they feel in Rahel's living room there is a thing here I'm still investigating and checking" "and I think and I even believe that at some point I might reach it just like many others that I met here said that it took them 10 years" "I hope it won't take me as long thats between Sharaby and God says Rahel in the mean time Rahel has more meetings planned, people to visit and people to comfort and where she sees gaps between Arabs and Jews" "Rahel says she will try to build bridges or act as one" "Rahel says it's what God will have her do" "I didn't see any hope except him" "السلام الداخلي" "قصة يوسف when "Jospeh Haddad" looks back at his past some of the memories he finds there bring pain" "I was living a terrible life and I came to a point that I knew if I continue in this manner I'm going to to put an end to my life." "I had no hope he says the future felt bleak to a young Arab boy in Israel" "I felt hardness toward the Jews who feel like all the time you are under somebody who is ready to arrest you or to or to charge you or to bring accusations against you, it was not easy. it's not" "there is no freedom in such a life. hopeless turned to hostility and in time, the war outside Joseph's home was matched by the war inside his heart the political situation in the land also added to this" "I didn't have peace neither with my family with my parents, even with myself and as a teenager I remember that I mistreated my parents, I was beating them, cursing them and dealing with them as my enemies" "I woke at night time and my mother was sitting mad and praying:"Lord change him"" "she was asking God to help me and change me" "I was ashamed of myself, you see I wanted to be changed but I couldn't change myself... he thought marriage would inspire" "him, but he was wrong!" "now I have 3 people to mistreat, my father and my mother and my wife!" "in February 1994 he met some people who seemed to offer hope.. they were talking about Jesus and salvation and starting a new life" "I remember that I started crying and was a long time did not cry, I think over ten years I did not cry.." "Joseph prayed and over a period of month he says his life was transformed as was his heart the first thing I did was to go back home and I took a basin of water and washed my father's and Mother's feet, I was kissing" "their feet, I was crying, asking for their forgiveness, there was a great joy in their heart he reconciled with his wife" "Joseph received forgiveness but now he had to give it he turned to his Bible... "if Jesus could forgive all his enemies despite the mistreating him and dealing with him in a harsh way"" "I believe that he can give me the power to forgive my enemies and this is what happened the war is over within Joseph Haddad and today he tries to bring a message of freedom to those still hold hostage by hatred" "when you live in peace with God, when you live with yourself and peace with everybody this is the climax of your life this is only God who can do such things in a life of a man!" "and in case some of you don't know my real name it is "Tayseer" the son of "Sa'eed"" "the son of "Ali"" "the son of "Hassan"" "from the clan "Abu Sa'da"" "Descendants of "Ishamael"" "the son of "Hagar"" "the wife of "Abraham"" "class is in cession" "Ta'az has much to teach because he has much to learn" "I got to know the Jewish people whom I have hated all my life with passion, to the point of going after them to kill them" "I had a passion for killing the Jew thank God he's cleansed me from that it happened during prayer suddenly I have heard myself praying for the Jewish people they were on my heart to pray for before my own people. and I was just" "stunned!" "I heard myself praying "LORD"" "bless them, bless your chosen ones and take them back to the promised land" "I heard my self doing that, I start working to shut my mouth with my hands because I realized what I was saying but I couldn't because it so bobbling inside of me aslo inside him a deep desire to unload the hatred he carried for Jews" "Ta'az said, Jesus told him how. "on the Cross"" "he was dying and he said father forgive them for they have not, they do not know what they are doing" "now, that is the moral for me if he can forgive so much, I can forgive so little" "in 2001" "Ta'az was invited to share his life story as an Arab Jewish conference in LA at the Podium was Maran" "he shared about his friends that were killed by a suicide bomber in the war and after he finished, he went back to his friends and Ta'az is coming to me and is saying, my name is Tayseer Abu Sa'da" "and I said: "nice to meet you" and in my heart I was like "what do you want from me?"" "and he is looking at me straight in my eyes and said: "I was a Fatah Fighter" (PLO) when I heard the word "Fatah" which is "PLO"" ""the Palestinian Liberty Organization" I took a step back and I said but I want to tell you something" "I said I want you to know that I love you and I was like "what!"" "right at that time, the leader of the meeting asks us to gather in group to 4 or 5 and to pray together and here I am finding myself shoulder to shoulder with an ex" "Fatah fighter, and we were praying to our heart to be reconciled and we were praying in tears and weep" "and he asks me for forgiveness in the name of his people for my friends who died" "I asked to forgive me for my anger and my hatefulness toward the Arabs and for not being able to trust Arabs and love the Arabs what God is done in that moment, he has lifted that burden" "away from my shoulders and he gave me love he gave me so much love and gave him a brother that I will be willing to give my life for a soul of a Jew" "Ok, I say it with all of my heart because I know God's heart" "for those people and if I were obedient to God" "I got to do what God is saying for me to do" "Ta'az is willing to die for me" "and that's a love that is more than a brother, a man that is willing to sacrifice his own life for the sake of his brother" "means the world to me" "I love Ta'az, I love his family and I'm willing to do the same for him" "he is my brother he is my little brother" "he means everything to me thats the peace of God" "no one can" "no one can bring that between two enemies." "Fierce enemies!" "except God" "Lisa Nira, a single mother in Jerusalem, has fond memories of her son's early years his name "Asaph" Asaph is easy going" "very well integrated he could be serious at times, but normal, happy at 18 it was Asaph's turn to do his time in the Israeli army" "2 years later he's still hasn't found his way home his mind is hold captive by an act of violence an event caught on tape" "during the middle of the day, he took a lift from a civilian who lived in "Ramot"" "and he just finished the job in the base and they're only driven couple of hundred meters off the base, in two junctions called the "Ayoush" jucntion the students that have been demonstrating had come down to that junction" "and they had already planned to wait for a soldier to come unarmed and to lynch him a boulder came from the side of the driver. the driver manged to get out and he didn't ran away, he ran towards the base to try and get help" "but Asaph was left trapped in the car!" "this first boulder had not desire for conscious and we he did regain consciousness which would be very very quickly they then start to physically to beat him the doors were open, they were climbing inside from those sides and they were beating his head, just beating him to pieces" "he felt his weapon, his riffle been torn of him for a split second the attention was off him and he just started to run, he couldn't see even where he is running to and he ran and the army" "had managed to get there and they rescued him out of all this" "he had two broken knees his ribs are broken, his head was totally cut open and his eyes were damaged, definitely then the final blow the army started to attack him saying that he had brought shame upon the army because he hadn't killed" "Palestinians, he hadn't made a real show of force the headline in the papers" "because he hadn't at least wounded 20 of them, he was humiliation he felt humiliated, he felted been done twice abandoned by those he served, Asaph retreated to his bedroom for a year, becoming a recluse" "physically scared, emotionally tormented he is still in a trauma and every time an incident happens, a bus bombing a car bombing or anything his instinct reaction is to go to sleep for 24 hours, he can't cope" "while Lisa try to nurse Asaph back to health, she uncovered wounds of her own" "Lisa, a Jew, had built her life around her belief in "Yeshua", Jesus, and his teachings about love. but now her life was filled with something else" "I'm full of this bitterness and this rough and this anger and this rage and this hate and physically it makes you ill bitterness just grows and grows and grows like cancer inside you, inside I was eaten up!" "Lisa's spirit became a casualty of war but she found a way to have peace again. she says Jesus came to her during prayer he just said to me: "Lisa"" "is it so hard for you to forgive?" "I said: "YES" it's impossible is it so hard for you to forgive?" "I said Lord what you want from me don't you know how hard it is?" "and he said: "Yes"" "he said: "I said Father forgive them for they know not what they do when I was pouring out my life blood for your sins for the sins of the world when I took all on me, I said: "Father forgive them"" "he said: "I know what it is, I know what suffering is" ""I know what pain is"" "and at that moment I said:" ""Abba please give me your ability, I desire"" "but I can't do it, its too big for me, its too enormous give your ability, give me your compassion to release these people"" "and something just broken me, just broken just like, you just break it down, all of these torrents of garbage that just block our lives and our spirits, it just, it just went just went!" "and then I thought Oh my goodness supposing its just words supposing it, really isn't there, supposing it came out of my mouth supposing there is no connection between my mouth and my heart" "I was tested on the test came after Police captured one of Asaph's key" "Asaf was asked to testifies but was rendered too fragile to come to court" "Lisa went instead. during a recess, Lisa looked around and found herself alone in the courtroom with 3 security guards and a man who tried to kill her son" "I'm really shaking I went over to him and I said to him: "Mr Soubhy" I said:"" "in the name of Yeshua the Messiah" "I forgive him" "I forgive you "Slicha", "I forgive and I said:" ""I only do it because my sins have been forgiven me. he's forgiven me my sins and in his name I come to you, I forgive you your sins the verdict came in guilty!" "the man will spent 10 years behind bars but he is the only prisoner" "Lisa says she is free free from the bondage of hatred that is dividing the land" "Asaf is making progress and Lisa is making arrangement to visit her son asylum in Jail" "and talk about peace" "hatred, is Sin and Sin is just is unacceptable to God!" "lets all welcome Mouran" "Mouran meets with Arabs often this is what he will today in this gathering in northern California its a mirror image of what Ta'az does, reaching out to Jews wherever, whenever he can its something Ta'az says, he feels compelled to do" "our people, the Arab people and the Jewish people, we all really longing we're long to be excepted" "and when they see a Palestinian excepting them or an Israeli accepting the Palestinian or the Arab they find something" "they find a chemistry that they never seen before" "Good Morning!" "Sabah il Khair (Good Morning in Arabic)" "Boker Tov (good morning in hebrew)" "Boker Tov" "Bonas Diyas (Good Morning in Spanish) and that's all I know many here are former Muslims who left Islam in do so, some suffered rejection from family and friends other fear reprisal which is why we cannot show their faces" "Mouran is sensitive to their plight many Jews like Arabs risked much to follow Jesus if I'm going to tell my family" "that I believe in Yeshua for many Jewish people its going be like betraying the Jewish faith because they don't know Yeshua, the true Yeshua the true Jesus evil men took that name and did horrible things" "I had to risk my relationship with my family, as the most important thing for me was my relationship with my family." "I love them, I love them a lot but" "I love God more than I love anyone else it is a sentiment echoed by many today people who have found peace and don't dont want to loose it. "I don't speak today to Arab people"" ""I speak today to brothers and sisters in the Lord"" "I cannot deny what Yeshua has done and is still doing in my life" "ONE one body, one spirit, one God, one love!" "I am born of 2 Arab parents and both Muslim which is why Lena is in silhouette while her parents still follow Islam she is not she hides her identity to protect her family it is a risk to forsake Islam, it is the ultimate sin" "the culture has put such a fear upon us as females that if we detour from what we've been taught that the entire family name will be shamed and the burden of that is just enormous many of them have to stay and hiding" "it is a difficult thing!" "in the past" "I could go to Church and now that there are road blocks and other such things that prevent my reaching the Church" "and so my friends and I do all at my house but we do it other time when people do not walk by and might hear and see what we are doing" "I can't tell them what I'm doing at my house" "Sami is devoted to his new found faith but he is played by concern for the men who come to worship at his home all former Muslims who live in hiding inside site sewage, garages even storage lockers like this one" "I was sent a letter to the house signed by the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) they put a small bullet in the letter, the letters said:" ""this bullet be shot at the ground but if you continue like that the next one will be in your heart!"" "my Dad said if I am not to convert he is going to kill me" "Samira Khaled grew up in Ramallah her father was a strong muslim man became outraged when his daughter told him about her love for Jesus" "in that culture, the land of Palestine no one can come between you between his daughter and her father so he had the right to do whatever, there is no government that he can run to but then I found myself running to the Lord" "and with so much fear I bowed down and" "I was trembling knowing that tonight tomorrow could be any moment could be my last day day on earth." "but Samira and many others refused to recant they say whatever they risk for their belief is worthy in light of what they have gained someone brought me some books" "and I started to read these books to pass the time" "I felt something for these books, they were on Jesus and spoke of Jesus" "I began to read and read and read and let gone when I read the sign gone" "I knew that this something that saves me from the life that I had before and there is something now that I live for" "God is peace and God is love if I knew there was a cure for cancer and if I knew someone had cancer I will run to them and say this is the cure" "I don't want to see you suffer any longer it is a cure for the human soul." "I have to share it with others even if it means that one day my life is might be taken" "Samira when faced with the death threat stood firm. her father relented and then followed up with a different demand" "I'm going to give you the freedom to worship whomever you want in your heart only but publicly I would ask you to confess Islam as your religion otherwise I'm going to deny you!" "which she did when Samira told him she said she could not give up her faith with in months, Samira was astonished when the way was cleared for her to pursue her religious studies in American college" "she says God rescued her her father would only speak to her once before he died" "Samira says she has no regrets if I look at my life as a believer I do see God's hand intervening and initiating and intervening to bring me to himself and as a believer now I see his love and I see his" "faithfulness up to this hour and only those who've known him can experience that kind of peace in the midst of a storm!" "Thank you!" "when Ta'az and Mouran break bread it means something to them" "Amen..." "Amen and the time they spent together means even more and "the Flafel" was a little dry, I almost choke!" "that you asked me if I want a glass of water you remember?" "oh, I remember that very well when you came with a glass of water you remember what I asked you to do?" "ah, you said: "you drink first"" "they share good times and there are many but they share bad times and bad news both say they grieve for their people back home" "I have hope, I don't look at human act that people are doing, I put Yeshua as the center of my life and that's where I found my hope and that's the message he brings to Israelis when he visits home" "Mouran says the peace he gets from God is like the love he has for Ta'as its constant its unbreakable" "Ta'az agrees there is temporary fix in the politicians deals, its not permanent fix but when Jews and Palestinians come together in the name of God" "the true God then there is a permanent fix then there is a true peace" ""Shmuel Eweida" is the leader of "Beit Elyahu"" "congregation in Haifa comprised mainly of Jews who believe that Jesus is their Messiah its a group peace felt connected to since childhood they've been persecuted in Germany and Poland and wherever and almost killed because they are Jewish and now they come to Israel" "the Jewish State of Israel all of the sudden all of their own children don't want to have anything to do with them because they are not good enough Jews or they've maybe they think they have betrayed Judaism" "while they believe that actually done the most Jewish thing that they could have done, in believing in Yeshua his love for Jewish people is well known in northern Israel and unusual "Shmuel Eweida"" "is Arab some say he straddles two cultures" ""Shmuel" sees it differently my identity first of foremost belong to Yeshua, we are brother and sisters and we don't look at our ID cards checking if you are Arab or Jewish we don't check for all those external ethnic things" "his personal beliefs extend to his personal life his best friend "Danny Sayak" is a Jew" "I love Danny he is a good friend he used to stand in my place on Friday nights and stay over to Shabat so he used to come as soldier dressed with his uniform and his M-16 gun and stay at arab guy" "and go to the Shabat service together that was 17 years ago." "Today Shmuel and Danny bring their children together to play two cultures joined as one embodying hope for the next generation the fact that some of the children have an Arab father and the other have a a Jewish father to them its no" "its not an issue. this should be understood as what it is a true process of peace which God which God can make its not man made, its nothing politicians can make or create. there is nothing agreements or peace treaties can perform" "its just something that happens within people" "I'm optimistic because I know God said that he has a plan and he is the hope of Israel" "five months after this interview" "Shmuel Optimism was tested when a suicide bomber killed a child from his congregation this last bomb blast bus in Haifa where our dear "Abgail" 14 years old was on her way back from School had tremendous impact" "and we real felt what it means to be a one family and that when one part of the body is suffering the whole body is aching the congregation stood together and the world watched as an Arab led the funeral service for Jews mourning the death of a christian child" "it was ironic said some how a murder that could divided the people united them instead" "Shmuel says whatever tomorrow brings hope and faith will remain unshaked the peace God give is a reality. we live it every day" "Abigail was a very sincere and strong believer in Yehsua standing in her graveyard facing a coffin there, I'm not talking to her she heard me enough in the congregation, she doesn't need me now in the funeral we were talking to those" "who are alive. whether they are ambassadors or children they need to hear about this hope we are temporary but God has an eternal plan" ""Snowa Abramovits" and "Hind Khamis"" "are best friends" "they live in Haifa a picturesque port city on the Mediterranean sea played in recent years by increased terrorist activities rushing between Jews" "but Snowa and Hind and others have found safe harbor here at "Even-Ezer" home its a place where people retire age old hostility and live out their golden years in peace we are very happy that we can gather here" "together Arabs and Jews and that we can come to an understanding and have the will to have the love for each other the cornerstone of this community is an unwavering belief that Yehsua, Jesus is the Messiah" "Snowa, a Jew who was born in Haifa came to that knowledge in the fifties" "I accepted it immediately I had a feeling that I am in nearer to God when I pray but she prayed in private with the request of her husband who feared retribution from his orthodox friends after he died" "Snowa joined a congregation and met Arabs who also loved Jesus when I heard that some Arab became a Christ believer" "I was very, I now happy about it because I though it is very good if we become Christ believer we should be united in good relation" "Hind, an Arab born in Nazareth worked as a nurse most of her life a life she says spent searching for something more she found it with the help of her friend. "she told me let us pray together"" "I told her I don't know how to pray she said stay with me, we kneel and I pray and your pray" "I said OK but I don't know to pray she start to pray this woman like tape recorder" "I never saw woman closing her eyes, don't read, praying, praying and" "I want to pray this lady she's different than me she pray such a prayer then she told she finished she told that you pray I told her I have few words I will say" "I remember" "I said Jesus save me liked you saved the disciples when they were in the sea going round round the water" "I told this what my prayer this is the condition I am in I don't know more than that then I got up the next day, Hind says she began new life." "I felt something changing me the heavy things it went joy came to my heart my eyes open, and I saw the Bible different than before" "they came from a different worlds but arrived the same place physically and spiritually it is written in every chapter of the new testament to be kind to each other to help each to be believe in each other and all that gives a good feeling" "the kind of feeling that inspires a new friendship in old age" "I love her since I saw her she was so humble so kind and I saw there is something in her" "is full of kindness for everybody" "I don't have a feeling she is different from me also we feel just like the same" "I cannot tell you how good she is" "I trust her and love her. we are in good relation this Arab and a Jew celebrate peace sharing in daily tasks and eternal promises together" "when we finish prayer we will sing ans Snowa she learned it from me praise him, praise him praise him in the morning, praise in the noon time praise him praise him praise him when the sun goes down" "I want to challenge each one not to believe what I say" "but simply just to say once: "God if you are there please reveal it to me" if its not true nothing will happen" "if it is true your life will change" "so, what you think?" "I would like us to pray if God can do this change in a reckless person heart like myself" "I believe there is hope for anybody and its not just a conflict in the middle east a conflict in their own life" "you know whatever the circumstances whatever the situation they have" "God says I'm always there for you all you have to do is seek me" "I pray LORD for our people the Israelis and the Palestinians who would be one in you, since you are our peace and your break the barrier that have separated us we just so eager to see peace come" "Israel and Ishmael as you have brought us together brothers and sisters why should we fight each, why shouldn't we live in peace the peace God give is a reality in the midst of the storm only those who known him can experience peace" "I cannot see any hope except him" "Amen, Amen, its awesome"