Blood Brothers
While away on holiday recently I re-read a book that I had read 20 years ago, Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour. Elias Chacour was born in the Palestinian village of Biram in the upper Galilee in 1939. In 1948 after a United Nations resolution, his country of Palestine became the sovereign state of Israel. Three years later, his own village of Biram would be changed forever. In 1951, Israeli soldiers marched into Biram and told the inhabitants that they would have to leave the village temporarily for security reasons. When the inhabitants of Biram returned, they found their houses, their entire village, bulldozed by the Israelis. They have never to this date been allowed to return.Elias Chacour became a priest in the Melkite Catholic Church, which dates back to the Byzantine period and Constantine. Father Chacour is a man of faith, and is also a Palestinian who has worked for many years at trying to be an agent for peace, justice and reconciliation.
His book and other writings are well worth the read as it presents another side from what we traditionally get in our media about the problems in the middle east today.
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