Riyad FarajI fought and was in jail for six years and ten months. I got nothing. Just the opposite -- I lost my dream. I lost my brother and my father and didn't get anything. Another person will lose his brother and parents and will get nothing. Some have lost their children. So I started thinking of a way other than resistance. I started thinking of a way to convince my enemy to believe in my rights. If I keep thinking with the logic of resistance, there will be no one left to resist. Riyad Faraj joined the Bereaved Families Forum in January 2004. His father was killed by the Israeli army in the spring of 2003, and his brother died of leukemia which he developed while serving time in Israeli prison. Riyad himself spent nearly seven years in Israeli prisons in the 1980s. Riyad is married and has three children. This interview was conducted approximately one and a half months after Riyad's first meeting with the Bereaved Families Forum, in which he attended a weekend conference of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families. |
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