Aziz Abu Sarra
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I don't feel like you feel.
And we say, you think it's never going to happen to you until it does.
Don't wait until something horrible happens to someone in your family to wake up and realize none of us are immune.
And so it's very important that people realize every day we wait endangers all of us.
I didn't think it was astounding for me.
I thought it was the normal thing to do.
I think you build this brotherhood and you get to know each other.
And that's what Maoz and I did together.
and you recognize each other.
And when you start recognizing and caring for each other, this kind of action becomes normal because I think one of the most things we lack today, this is true in America, this is true in Israel and Palestine, is a bit more empathy, is a bit more recognition, is a bit more kindness, is a bit more, I want to show you and I want to respect you.
I want to show you some respect.
And that's what I did.
His grandmother
It is the right thing to use the Jewish tradition in me, you know, honoring my friend and his family.
It didn't feel that I was, to me at least in the moment, it didn't feel that I was doing something incredible or something astounding.
It felt that I was doing what was right.
Now, we're not claiming we are the majority.
People can see polls and they know we are not necessarily the majority right now.
But not being the majority doesn't mean you give up because at no point, almost in any conflict, in any war, in any atrocities that happened in the world, were the majority of people usually on our side, on the side of solution.
And eventually, those places found a way to peace.