'Sulha' Prayer at Abraham's Tomb in Hebron

A group of Jews and Muslims came to pray together for 'sulha' (reconciliation) at the Tomb of Abraham in Hebron. It's also called Ma'arat Hamakhpela or Haram il-Ibrahimiya. The soldiers couldn't believe to see it--Jews and Muslim coming here to pray...together?

This is the final scene in the film 'On the Road to Sulha' by Laura Beatty.

In the circle were the 'Green Sheikh' and his daughters, Ibrahim Abuelhwa, Gaby Meyer, Azriel Cohen, Sheikh Fara Gaye, Ihab Balha, Connie Risk, Sarita Moas, Eliyahu McLean

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[izzash]

ya nabiyullah ibrahim..allahumma solli 'ala muhammad wa'ala ali muhammad,kama sollaita 'ala ibrahim,wa'ala ali ibrahim..

[TheDetective1]

Salam & Shalom. Muslims and Jews and Christians lived in peace with each other before they Zionist came to Palestine and Occupied Palestine. Zionists came with their weapons and created a problem.

PEACE

[Rolla4Prez]

oh! and this video made me tear up when the young soldier joined in. there is good in all people.

[Rolla4Prez]

Allhumdulillah i got to pray at Abraham's tomb and tombs of some of the other prophets. may peace be upon them all. i pray that fighting will stop between both sides and peace will ensue. InshaAllah. Salam. shalom. and peace everyone!

[amyrpk]

@shadowkill546 One final point: The only displacement of Arabs was due to the war in 1947-1949. And the Jews did not start that war.

The Palestinians are being ceded a portion of the Jewish historical homeland, that only ever held a sovereign Jewish nation and was occupied by others for centuries, because the Arabs built settlements during the Arab occupation of the Jewish homeland. The Jews will cede a portion of their homeland to the Arabs for peace.

What will the Arabs do for peace?

[amyrpk]

@shadowkill546 I can respect your sentiments as well. You are missing quite a bit in the middle, though. The homeland for the Jews was Judea, which was occupied by the Romans, who renamed it Palestine as part of ethnically cleansing the area of Jews. They didn't succeed, and Jews remained throughout the centuries. The Zionist movement is the right of return for those displaced Jews.

A 1-state solution is the attempt to deny the right to sovereignty to Jews. I'm against it.

[shadowkill546]

@amyrpk

Well, I can respect your sentiments, however, the difference between Zionism and the Palestinian movement is that Zionism was to establish a homeland for foreign Jews in Palestine which included the displacement of Palestinians, whereas the Palestinian movement is the right of return of those displaced Palestinians as well as the right to sovereignty. This does not include the expulsion of the Jews however.

What do you think of a one state solution?

[amyrpk]

@rahuling125 You take a great thought (that we can live in peace) and trash it (by blaming "Zionists" for the fighting).

There's no difference between Zionism, on the one hand, and the movement for Palestinian independence on the other. None. They mean the same thing: the desire for their people's independence, and the desire for national sovereignty for their people.

An important step to peace is to stop perpetuating the propaganda, stop perpetuating the misinformation and the hate.

[ForeroFlower]

the best years Jews lived with Muslims too was between 711-1492 during Islamic rule in Andalucia Spain. Moses ben Maimon known as Maimonides in Arabic it's pronounced Musa ibn Maymun he like so many scholars were part of that Golden Age in the Iberian Peninsula. The period of going astray is now for all believing people. To fight one another so they can't think outside the box... instead they're in the box fighting one another.