Blood Brothers

I don't remember listening to audiobooks since we moved to Richmond, BC.

Right now I am listening to "Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel". This is an excellent book by Elias Chacour. As a child, he lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict, touching on questions such as: 

• What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East? 
• What does Bible prophecy really have to say? 
• Can bitter enemies ever be reconciled?

The forward has a helpful update on recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Blood Brothers offers hope and insight that can help each of us learn to live at peace in a world of tension and terror. Whatever else can be said, absolutely nothing justifies terrorizing and violently targeting civilians. And in this, the extremes of both sides aren’t moral opposites, but rather, moral mirrors. I think we need to be very careful of any narrative that paints a black-and-white (uncomplex) picture.