Blood Brothers
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As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a tiny Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their very ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps. An exile in his native land, Elias started a years-long struggle with his like for the Jewish people and the world’s misunderstanding of his own people, the Palestinians. How was he to respond? He establish his answer in the simple, haunting words of the Man of Galilee: “Blessed are the peacemakers.” In Blood Brothers, Chacour blends his riveting life tale with past research to reveal a small-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions such as “What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?”, “What does Bible prophecy really have to say?”, and “Can bitter enemies ever be reconciled?” Originally published by Chosen Books in 1984 and now expanded with a new introduction by the leader, a new foreword by ex- Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and a “Since Then” epilogue by writer David Hazard, this compelling book offers readers hope-filled insight into living at peace in the most volatile region of the world.
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Arab Christian leaders of the Middle East have not made a favorable impression on me. Reasonably the contrary. Perhaps if any group of people has made me embarrassed to be a human being, they have. After all, we’re talking about people such as Hilarion Capucci, who is both an archbishop and a terrorist thug, and who invokes Jesus as though Jesus were a thug as well. We’re talking about Naim Ateek. About Michael Sabbah. We’re talking about Hanan Ashrawi. These people have done plenty to oppose human rights. They have, by the way, done small to support their own religion, being pleased to avoid any thought that Jesus might have been Jewish. In fact, many are simply Marcionites, who have basically thrown away their Ancient Testaments. Now, I take place to prefer the Koran to the Ancient Tribute, but I’m surprised that “Christians” would. And I’m even more surprised that Christian religious leaders would be so pleased to support terror (some of it against Christians) from persons of a different religion.
I have no sympathy for the way these leaders propagandize in favor of terror. I have no sympathy for the way they oppose additional minorities, especially the Jews. I have no doubt that they oppose Pagans as well.
Still, I know that people are not permanently as terrible as their leaders. And I hoped that would be the case with the leader of this book. So I skipped breakfast and tried reading it!
Well, the book ongoing with an intoduction (by James Baker) that made me queasy enough so that I was glad I hadn’t had breakfast. And it turned out that Chacour was basically similar to the Arab Christian leaders, neither peace-loving nor moderate. To him, Jews are not victims to be helped or defended. They are evil creatures to be forgiven and cured.
I generally feel for persons who have suffered through wars. And I know plenty of people who spent World War Two in London, Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, and far worse places. It was no fun for many Japanese and Germans as the war came to a close and they wound up lacking food (or worse, sent to Siberia by the Russians). But I can empathize with their plights. And to their credit, I’ve never had any of them try to deny the fact that their nations were aggressors. I don’t reflect I’d abide the same accounts from them were they to insist that all the attacks on their nation had been unprovoked, but that they could still find the heart to “forgive” persons who attacked them!
Chacour does present a fake history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. And the things he says that are clearly fake cast fantastic doubt on much of the rest of his tale. Moreover, I am completely repelled by his eagerness to falsely blame others and then “forgive” them!
Anyway, he’s not showing compassion and forgiveness. He’s showing hatred, cowardice, and malevolence. And no one needs that.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Chacour has a huge (to some extent justifiable) prejudiced axe to grind and he does it in a sneaky manipulative beeding-heart manner that draws you into his family tree’s pain and paints a fake picture of the current struggle.
Since he is simply a Melkite priest, I would not expect most Bible-believing theologicaly balanced Christians to subscribe to his interpretaion of scripture. I;m shocked that some have here, he barely mentions word “Muslim” if at all in the book (how odd???). As an Evangelical Christian I am very troubled by The Palestinian leadership’s beliefs regarding Jews AND Christians and judge they should be addressed. I doubt Chacour would agree with this thinking based on this book. He forgets that the PLO is not a country (palestine is no more a country than Babylon) they are a terrorist-lead (Hamas) 30-yr-ancient anti-government movement that exists with the manifesto of building Jews extinct in Israel. They do not judge the truths of the Bible, but he makes known no intention of seeing Muslims denouncing Islam and being converted to worshipping the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob which mentally-language should be a top priority of all followers of Jesus.
As one reviewer wrote, According to the book, the Israeli’s slaughtered entire towns. His villiage was massacred, and it was a Catholic villiage that was not fighting against the Israeli’s. The book is an brilliant read from the point of view of a boy that comes to place his faith in the Lord. It is clean to see a name that has suffered so much still like the Jews.I wouldn’t place a lot of confidence in that particular book
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He seems determined to prove kind intentions toward his blood brothers by sympathizing deeply with Jewish people over the horrors of the Holocaust. His sympathy is no prize. Throughout the book, Chacour repeats how he and his family tree were able to forgive what he sees as Zionist acts of terror by viewing such acts as a result to the Germans. He blames the Nazis time and time again, but never mentions Arab threats to drive the Jewish people into the sea. Nor do we hear of any Arab aggression additional than isollated instances by desperate men whom Chacour claimed were “not even welcome in their own country.”
His sympathy and forgiveness are at the expense of the Nazis (safe enough, because everyone can agree to be against them) and seem to serve as a concession to diminish the fact that the leader is really pointing an accusing finger at Zionists: “To me, it seemed that the Zionists had entered into an unholy marriage, an alliance motivated by power and convenience, consummated in treachery” (p. 119). To say you like and sympathize with a person to gain a hearing for the grudge you bear them, whether done consciously or not, is manipulative.
No honest-minded person should expect an unbiased opinion of the Middle East conflict from Arabs or from Jews, much less from a name who has suffered the anguish of living as a refugee. Blood Brothers should be read with that in mind. I don’t wish to ruin this thread into a discussion of the sincerity or bias that may be present in this book.
This book should not just be ignored, it should be banned for subtly spreading anti-semetism in such volitile time as these.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Chacour in Blood Brothers leads us to judge that the Israeli Army slaughtered the people of an Arab Christian town (transliterated Jish or Gish) and buried them in a shallow grave where 8-year-ancient Chacour learned the decomposed bodies.
I went with another journalist to Gish and spoke with an Arab Christian who was 16-years-ancient and living in Gish when the the massacre was supposed to have happened. He had never heard of a massacre there.
I spoke to the town historian on the phone and he had never heard of of a massacre there. When I mentioned Chacour and Blood Brothers, he said, “I wouldn’t take too seriously the things written in that book.”
Chacour claims that his family tree lived in Baram (about 2 miles from Gish) for a 1,000 years before they had to place Baram and go to Gish in 1947-48. The historian of Gish told me that Chacour and his family tree were latecomers to Baram. Chacour’s family tree were Melkite Christians while most of the families of Baram were Maronite Christians.
Baram was a Jewish community until the mid 1700s. A large synagogue in Baram testifies to this. Sometime in the 1800s Maronite Christians came from Lebanon and settled in the abandoned town and built a church which stands there today.
Baram overlooks the Lebanon border and was one of many Arab villages within a 3 mile wide path along the border whose inhabitants (for security reasons) were relocated farther away from the border.
Two Arabic Christians took us to visit Baram. It has been preserved as a park and is appealing because of the synagogue and church, and especially appealing are the very ancient homes there. The houses were tiny and closely packed together. The two young men took us to visit the home his family tree had lived in. It was something like 40 ft. x 40 ft. (maybe less) with two dividing walls (about 3 ft apart) partway across the middle of the house, partially dividing it into 2 rooms. The space between the two walls was used for storage. In the main room toward the back and near the outer wall was a cistern cut into the stone.
Each year ex- residents of Baram get together at Baram with their families for a picnic to tell about how they loved living there. Indeed it is a magnificently gorgeous spot and a wonderful place to see how people lived long ago. Some of the inhabitents want to go back there. But, if persons very ancient houses were ruined and streets lined and cement homes built in their place, the ex- inhabitants (and mankind) would lose a fantastic past treasure.
The Arabic Christian inhabitants of Baram that stirred to Gish have prospered and have full citizenship in Israel. They now have large expensive homes and the two young men who took us to Baram had attended university in Europe.
Chacour presents himself as forgiving the Israelis for a massacre that (according to the people living there) didn’t take place. How hard is it to forgive a name for something that never happened?
What concerns me about this book is that it is 6th on Amazon,s bestselling list out of more than 8,000 books. That means that tens of thousands of people around the world have received fake information.
The Middle East is a powder keg. Fake information could start a world war there. It is in the best interests of everyone in the world to demand that absolute truth be published about the situation there.
The fake information is all the more damaging because of the gorgeous thoughts expressed, which make us want to judge what Chacour says.
Two publishers stopped publication of this book and a 3rd publisher listed it as fiction after finding out that it is not right.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Elias Chacour has permanently been Anti-Israel Anti-Semetic, a better book which will show much more detail and wide evidence can be establish in Joan Peter’s book “From Time Immomorial”, read it and compare the two and see for yourself.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a fantastic, if you are not expecting to read about the actual conflicts that have riddled the middle east. But rather how one man deals with day to day problems that one faces if he is inspiring to become a priest, and happens to be from Palestine. HIS thoughts, HIS feelings, unfortunatly none of the right past turning points are discussed in any depth. It makes for some fantastic reading, and some nice biblical phrases are thrown in here and there.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5