From the archives: an interview with Elias Chacour recorded in 2002 and rediscovered in the files of Pilgrims of Ibillin. The interviewer is not identified in the available archive, so we cannot give credit.

I realized that peace is not to be signed only by presidents and prime ministers. They sign peace after they use weapons. We have to write peace, to curve peace, to engrave peace in the hearts of children around the school tables.

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…(Y)ou cannot repair the wrong in killing, let us say, the sinner or the wrong one. You have to love the wrong one in order to help him get rid of his wrong

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Archive note: The recording is identified in the available files as a 2002 interview with Elias Chacour. The interviewer and additional recording details are not identified in the available archive.