Adolf Hitler Cannot Determine this Conflict’s Course by Ellis Weintraub and Ximena Vega

Adolf Hitler Cannot Determine this Conflict’s Course
by Ellis Weintraub and by Ximena Vega

Featured this week on the homepage of the Palestine-Israel Journal, www.pij.org

Several months ago, an Arab lawyer named Khaled Kasab Mahameed and the head of a Holocaust survivor organization were heading to Ramallah to make arrangements between the PLO and that organization. With the two men was a former PLO combatant who had spent three years in an Israeli jail.

After Khaled finished his studies in 2003, he had decided to create a museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust in his Nazareth law office. "I had some free time," Khaled told us over coffee and cakes, "and I was politically active, so I began this museum."

Khaled Kasab Mahameed in front of the museumOne year later, Khaled visited Jerusalem with his family and they visited the separation barrier. After taking a picture of his son at the wall, the Israeli army advised them to go home. This experience left him shaken.

"I had to understand what would lead people to build such a structure, a division between peoples," he said, "so then I knew that I had to go to Yad Vashem."

Khaled bought pictures of the Holocaust from Yad Vashem and put them all over the walls of his office. "I wanted to see and understand," added Khaled.

"I wanted to have this tragic event in front of me so that I could think about it every day." ...

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